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'Ain’t Nobody Gone Take It from You!'
- Source :
- Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts. 11
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Equinox Publishing, 2021.
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Abstract
- Dance, in both its historical formulations during the slave trade and its contemporary manifestations in carnival celebrations, has enormous significance for numerous Caribbean cultures. Using some biblical texts to think with (2 Sam 6: 14; Song 6: 13), this paper explores the historical and contemporary event of Junkanoo as a reflection of Bahamian culture and its interaction with colonialism and contemporary tourism. Junkanoo is not explicitly biblical or religious, though it does show the marks and tussles of colonization and hence Christianization. The biblical moments of movement and resistance considered here frame dance in various and interesting ways—as the vehicle for emotional expression, as liberation, as licensed revolt, as the tool of empire—allowing for exploration of dance as a multi-valent, political act, as much as a powerful reflection of affect.
- Subjects :
- Christianization
History
Dance
Identity (social science)
020206 networking & telecommunications
02 engineering and technology
Colonialism
nobody
Politics
Aesthetics
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Ain't
Resistance (creativity)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17438888 and 1743887X
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c85e23bcd50891b5ff200441515ef0e0