عنوان

"They do as they please" :

(Number (ISBN

9766402442

(Number (ISBN

9766402450 (pbk.)

(Number (ISBN

9789766402440

(Number (ISBN

9789766402457 (pbk.)

Number

b511432

Title Proper

"They do as they please" :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay /

First Statement of Responsibility

Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Kingston, Jamaica :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of the West Indies Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 580 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

"This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-566) and index

Text of Note

The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation -- "Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture -- Celebrating life, commemorating death : rites of passage -- "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culture -- "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity -- "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance -- "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals -- "De tune you playing no de one I dancing" : popular entertainment -- "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture -- "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities -- "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos -- "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war -- Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica

0

Text of Note

Moore and Johnson argue that although a vibrant and fully functional creole culture existed in Jamaica, after Morant Bay, diverse elements within the upper and middle classes (the cultural elites) formed a coalition to eradicate that "barbaric" culture which they believed had contributed to the uprising, and to replace it with "superior" cultural items imported from Victorian Britain in order to "civilize" and anglicize the people. It reinforces the prime thesis of Neither Led nor Driven that the lower classes, the main targets of this campaign, drew on their own Afro-creole cultural heritage to resist and ignore the new elite cultural agenda; but they did selectively embrace some aspects of the imported Victorian culture which they creolized to fit their own cultural matrix. Ultimately, the cultural elite efforts at "reform" were hampered by their own ambivalence, hypocrisy and disunity, and they actually impeded the sponsored process of anglicization. --

Text of Note

The data are primary archival and contemporary library resources housed mainly in Jamaica and the United Kingdom. The authors' meticulous analysis of official reports, newspapers, religious denomination reports, private papers and published accounts has produced a work that illuminates the complex and still under-explored period of Jamaica's history as the society entered new phases of "modernity". --Book Jacket

Text of Note

This book is a companion to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004. It examines the secular aspects of culture in Jamaica, namely, material culture (architecture and home furnishings, dress, and food), rites of passage, language and oral culture, creative and performance arts, popular entertainment, sports and games, social clubs and fraternities, and the issues of drinking and gambling. It also examines the lifestyle cultures of Indian and Chinese immigrants who were new arrivals in Jamaica. --

Parallel Title

Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay

Creoles-- Jamaica

Social classes-- Jamaica

Jamaica, Civilization, British influences

Jamaica, Social conditions

Jamaica, Social life and customs

0

0

0

Class number

Book number

Moore, Brian L.,1948-

Johnson, Michele A

Electronic name

[Book]

Y