Abstract
This article explores the politics-culture nexus by examining the role of popular culture and song in Jamaica's political process from national independence from Britain (1962) to 1996. The paper focuses on the ways in which musicians and singers interpreted and responded to socio-economic and political exigencies of post-independent Jamaica. Secondly, the article examines how political parties and politicians strategically used the lyrics of songs for garnering political support and for facilitating political consensus in the 1970s in particular. In conclusion the article argues that the role of popular culture in the political process is nonetheless agential and changes according to the socioeconomic and political climate within the society itself.
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