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Rude Citizenship

By Mann, Larisa Kingston

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Rude Citizenship

By Mann, Larisa Kingston

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In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann-DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer-identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood. In street dances, recording sessions, and global genres such as the riddim, notions of originality include reliance on shared knowledge and authorship as an interactive practice. In this context, musicians, music producers, and audiences are often resistant to conventional copyright practices. And this resistance, Mann shows, goes beyond cultural concerns.
Because many working-class and poor people are cut off from the full benefits of citizenship on the basis of race, class, and geography, Jamaican music spaces are an important site of social commentary and political action in the face of the state's limited reach and neglect of social services and infrastructure. Music makers organize performance and commerce in ways that defy, though not without danger, state ordinances and intellectual property law and provide poor Jamaicans avenues for self-expression and self-definition that are closed off to them in the wider society. In a world shaped by coloniality, how creators relate to copyright reveals how people will play outside, within, and through the limits of their marginalization.
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Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2022-03-29
Publication Date:
2022-03-29
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
146966724X1469667231
ISBN13:
9781469667232
Weight:
579 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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