Discussion Assignment Dancehall Music

 
it might be better to answer less questions and devote more time to developing your own interpretation and opinions of the reading.

you'll need to be more specific and try and describe what you hear in the music in greater detail. Use more of the music terminology from week 1,



Avoid generalizations like this unless you can make them yourself: "Puccini masterpiece is considered one the most tender and dramatically effective of operatic death scenes." Have you watched lots of operatic death scenes? If not, how do you know this is true?







What surprised you most about the slums from the reading?

What accounts for the rapid growth of slums worldwide after 1950?

How does Dancehall “represent” the slums?

What kind of gender roles are articulated by Dancehall?

Pick a Dancehall song and explain what stands out about it to you and how the music helps to express its message and mood.

Does Dancehall cause crime? If not, what does cause crime?



REQUIRED MATERIALS

Read Davis, Planet of Slums, Ch. 1



Listen to the lecture and music on Dancehall which is attached to file

Reading http://rebels-library(dot)org/files/planet_of_slums.pdf

Dancehall Music & Terms

Music



Bob Marley – The Belly Full (But We Hungry)

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=no5YWKY6eOs



Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=Wjw7m-BKmQ8



DJ Buju Banton – Operation Ardent (1992)

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=P4J8WR98x8U



Shabba Ranks – Dem Bow

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=VQqwea8ZSbk



Beenie Man – Bury Your Dead

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ILhmyXpJ-20



Capleton – Dis the Trinity (example of rude-boy rasta genre)

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=qpl1W0UJBn0



Bounty Killer – Fed Up

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=Ezwt3EBu3n0



Lady Saw – I’ve Got Your Man

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=0q9wBXVYnZg



DJ Assassin – Gully Sit’n (2006)

https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=W0aKBWopbtk







Terms



Kingston, Jamaica



Colony



Spain



England



Slavery (1833 abolished)



Plantations



Independence (1833)



Bauxite mining



Imperialism



Rural to urban migration



Rude Boys



Marijuana



Gangs



PNP (People’s National Party)



JLP (Jamaican Labor Party)



Rastafarianism



Love and peace



Ganja use



Ethiopia



Hallie Selassie



Marcus Garvey



Anti-imperialism



African liberation



Dreadlocks



Patois



Reggae



Sufferers



Slow tempo



Bassline



Syncopation



Bob Marley



Sound system



DJ



Selector



King Tubby



Dub



U-Roy



Riddim



Rhymes



Wayne Smith



Drum machine



Synthesizer



Dancehall



Bassline



Rhythmic patterns



Shabba Ranks



King of Dancehall



Recording studio



Sound system crews



Sexualized dance



Fashion



Crime



Repression



Police raids



1997 Noise Abatement Act



1999 Places of Amusement Regulaitons



Operation Ardent



Neoliberalism



Foreign debt



Cocaine trade



Gang violence



Gun lyrics



Slackness



Rasta Renaissance (1993)



Tony Rebel



Reality dancehall



Rude-boy Rasta



All-Rounders



Women DJs



Lady Saw



Moral panic



Sexual subject



It is a one page discussion contribution and I had stated in the instruction that the teacher said you do not need to answer all questions but chose a few and be detailed and involve the material to be used.So the writer can choose not all questions but the one they choose to they do not have to generalize it but detailed and specific