The politics of presence : performing blackness in Japan -- Music and orality : authenticity in Japanese sound system culture -- Fashion and dance : performing gender in Japan's reggae dance scene -- Body and spirit : Rastafarian consciousness in rural Japan -- Text and image : bad Jamaicans, tough Japanese, and the third world "search for self" -- Jamaican perspectives on Jamaican culture in Japan
Summary
An ethnography of Japanese engagement with Jamaican performative culture, from roots reggae and Rasta to dancehall and reggae dance
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index
