Main description:

dancehall, dance and performance studies, sociology, cultural geography, anthropology, post-colonial studies, diaspora studies, musicology, and gender studies.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Corporeal in/securities in the dancehall space 2. Practice, vision, security 3. Me badi a fe me BMW (my body is my BMW): engaging the badi (body) to interrogate the shifting in/securities within the co-culture of daaance'all 4. Interrogating in/securities in the recording studios of Kingston 5. The mask for survival: a discourse in dancehall regalia 6. Dancehall dancing bodies: the performance of embodied in/security 7. An in/secure life in dance; thoughts on dancehall's in/secure lives 8. The warrior wine - the rotation of Caribbean masculinity 9. 'Sounding' out the system: noise, in/security and the politics of citizenship