Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the"Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture

by Carolyn Cooper

Book Overview

The language of Jamaican popular culture-its folklore, idioms, music, poetry, song-even when written is based on a tradition of sound, an orality that has often been denigrated as not worthy of serious study. In Noises in the Blood, Carolyn Cooper critically examines the dismissed discourse of Jamaica's vibrant popular culture and reclaims these cultural forms, both oral and textual, from an undeserved neglect.
Cooper's exploration of Jamaican...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315955
• ISBN13: 9780822315957
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"