"They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay /

"They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Moore, Brian L., 1948-
Imprint:	Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.
Description:	xii, 580 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Social classes -- Jamaica. Creoles -- Jamaica. Civilization -- British influences. Creoles. Manners and customs. Social classes. Social conditions Jamaica -- Social life and customs. Jamaica -- Social conditions. Jamaica -- Civilization -- British influences. Jamaica.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8367234

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
Other authors / contributors:	Johnson, Michele A.
ISBN:	9789766402440 9766402442 9789766402457 (pbk.) 9766402450 (pbk.)
Notes:	"This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-566) and index.

Table of Contents:

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.