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MAN VIBES
The following review appeared in the December 2010 issue of CHOICE : Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Humanities
Performing Arts
Hope, Donna P. Man vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall. Ian Randle, 2010. ISBN 9789766374075
An authority on Jamaican gender issues and the culture of popular music, Hope (Institute of Caribbean Studies, Univ. of the West Indies) goes far in decoding the complicated, socially ingrained intricacies of the Jamaican dancehall culture. As a native Jamaican who has lived in and studied elements if Jamaica’s male-dominated society for her entire life, Hope writes with authority and from a unique perspective. Her knowledge of long-standing male dominance in both Jamaican society and the music culture allows her to create a theoretical framework and apply it to a variety of issues specific to the dancehall style. She addresses promiscuity, violence/gun culture, anti-homosexuality discourse, consumerism, and fashion, casting them as integral parts of modern dancehall wordplay and surrounding culture. As she deconstructs the language and actions of both male and female dancehall artists, the author exposes the widespread roots of a condition some view as unique to a narrow musical niche.
Summing up: Recommended. Upper –division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
-D.V Moskowitz
University of South Dakota
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