Babylon East : performing, dancehall, roots reggae, and Rastafari in Japan /

Babylon East : performing, dancehall, roots reggae, and Rastafari in Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sterling, Marvin D., 1969-
Imprint:	Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Description:	xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Rastafari movement -- Japan. Popular culture -- Japan. Subculture -- Japan. Manners and customs. Popular culture. Rastafari movement. Subculture. Japan -- Social life and customs. Japan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8113617

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ISBN:	9780822347057 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822347059 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822347224 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822347229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index.

Table of Contents:

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.