Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (Larisa Kingston Mann)
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power, Larisa Kingston Mann unravels the moral economies and legal copyright frameworks that inform and animate the ongoing evolution of Jamaican popular music.Mann's intervention into the study of Jamaican music and culture in this context is novel in multiple ways.Existing approaches to theorizing Jamaican popular music have contended with ways in which practitioners of the culture incorporate elements of embodied social knowledge (Henriques 2011), challenge the dominance of a stratified system of social classes (Cooper 2004) and create a sense of kinship with ancestral histories of migration and ritual practices (Niaah 2010;Stanley Niaah 2008).Mann's approach presents an account of how Jamaican musical cultures challenge dominant epistemologies about intellectual property and ownership based on colonial notions of enclosure-positioning the conditions in which Jamaican popular music emerges in relation to global struggles against the loss of commons-ecological, economic and cultural.Mann locates the legal framework of copyright as part of a wider set of colonial worldmaking apparatuses that create enclosures around popular music and culture, entangling them in regimes of ownership and intellectual property that most closely adhere to ideas of musical composition and creativity within a Eurocentric framework of cultural production, centering specific individuals and collectives in isolation from their cultural milieu as auteurs.Within the broader context of British imperialism in which Jamaican popular genres like reggae, ska, dancehall and dub have emerged, there are additionally Reviews
Source: Dancecult
Author: Aadita Chaudhury
Institutions: York University, Goldsmiths University of London
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406234887