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Universidade Federal do Maranhão
2009
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- "I came to take my place": Contemporary discourses of Rastafari in Jamaican popular culture Donna Hope Estudios Culturales Rastafari Gangsta Ras masculinity Jamaican popular music This article explores the place of 21st century representations of Rastafari in Jamaican popularmusic culture as reflective of a discursive move away from traditional discourses of Rastafari towards a convergence with "conflicted", Western discourses of Babylon, including thematerial and carnal. It briefly traces the movement of Rastafari in dancehall music and culturethrough the early manifestations of the hardcore dancehall artiste turned Rastafari deejay of the 1990s, to the early 21st century explosion of Rastafari-influenced artistes, and then to the most current representation of Rastafari in Jamaican popular music as reflected in the rise of the hybrid the dancehall/Rasta or Gangsta Ras. The manifestation of the Gangsta Ras is specifically examined through the lyrics, dress and self-presentation of Munga Honourable in dancehall culture. The inherent tensions in this paradoxical self-presentation interrupt the traditional notions of what it means to be Rastafari. Yet, Munga's ideological and discursive kinship with a cadre of Rastafari-influenced artistes who currently flit through dancehall's spaces imply a re-placement of Rastafari within the contemporary space of Jamaican popularmusic culture and suggests a renewed variant of Jamaican masculinity in Jamaican popular music culture. 2009 artículo científico 1518-6784 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=159113069005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1591 Revista Brasileira do Caribe application/pdf Universidade Federal do Maranhão Revista Brasileira do Caribe (Brasil) Num.18 Vol.IX