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called "juggling." The energy in the dance halls became very sexual, with increasingly revealing clothing, scandalous dance styles, and cruder lyrics from the DJs. Previously, sexual lyrics had been merely suggestive, but the new "slack" lyrics, part of the rebellion against fading
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in popular culture. Political and cultural changes along with shifting public tastes led to a new dancehall culture that became an increasingly important institution for West Indians, Jamaicans in particular.
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The rise of dancehall music coincided with important shifts in Jamaican society. Politically, the Jamaican people had rejected the originally revolutionary democratic socialist regime of
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proclaimed, "I never know why they call it slackness. I talk about sex, but it's just what happens behind closed doors. What I talk is reality".
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music with straightforward sexual lyrics performed live or recorded. Its form and pronunciation varies throughout the Caribbean.
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ideals, left nothing to the imagination. The term reflects the derisive attitude typified by the
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regained popularity. DJs performed over extended grooves produced by a new mixing style of
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culture, behavior, and music. It also refers to a subgenre of
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Vulgarity in West Indian culture, behavior and the music
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toward reggae music seen as lacking a deeper message.
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Index

West Indian
dancehall
roots reggae
sound systems
selecting
Rastafari movement
Nyabinghi
Michael Manley
People's National Party
Edward Seaga
Jamaica Labour Party
Bob Marley
Rastafari
Yellowman
Wake the Town & Tell the People
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0-8223-2514-4
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0-8223-1595-5


Wake the Town & Tell the People
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0-8223-2514-4
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0-8223-1595-5
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1-904041-96-5
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