Markus Coester & Wolfgang Bender (eds.), A Reader in African-Jamaican Music, Dance and Religion

Abstract

Postcolonial critiques of knowledge formation and discourse are challenged by the fact that they are often formulated by way of recourse to Western epistemological models. Marcus Coester and Wolfgang Bender’s studies on African Jamaican popular culture present timely alternatives to avoid this pitfall. Their Reader in African-Jamaican Music, Dance and Religion (2015) brings together seminal articles by Jamaican scholars and anthropologists of the early to late twentieth century who examined t...