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6PM GMT, 26TH JANUARY 2023 - READING RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN JAMAICAN REGGAE DANCEHALL DANCE - A BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION WITH DR ‘H’ PATTEN
IN-PERSON EVENT @ BARNARD’S INN HALL, LONDON
Registration at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-religion-and-spirituality-in-jamaican-reggae-dancehall-dance-registration-507403466427
NOTE: This is an in-person Book Launch. A full video of the event will be uploaded to the ISRF website within one week.
What do Jamaican reggae/dancehall dance practices reveal about the lived experiences of Jamaican working-class culture? And how should we understand the relation between the individual dancing body and the cultural whole within which it moves?
In his important new book, Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance <https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Religion-and-Spirituality-in-Jamaican-Reggae-Dancehall-Dance-Spirit/Patten/p/book/9780367539696> (Routledge, 2022), former ISRF Fellow Dr ‘H’ Patten <https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/h-patten/> offers a critical reading of Jamaican reggae/dancehall practice and proposes to view reggae/dancehall as a crucial component of indigenous Jamaican popular culture. He argues that dancehall, if approached critically, offers unique insight into the spiritual worldviews and everyday experiences of Jamaica’s lower-class Black African and neo-African peoples.
Centring what he terms the ‘corporeal dancing body,’ Patten argues that in dancehall dance practices the physical, emotional, spiritual, religious, and cultural all coincide, forming alternative histories that work to unsettle the references of otherness and difference that the white gaze has historically mapped onto Black bodies.
Patten will present an overview of his book, and will then be joined by two commentators: Michael McMillan, Associate Lecturer for Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion (UAL) and Editor of Sonic Vibrations <https://writersmosaic.org.uk/content/sonic-vibrations-part-1/> (Writers Mosaic, 2021); and Lisa Palmer, Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University, and co-editor (with Kehinde Andrews) of Blackness in Britain <https://www.routledge.com/Blackness-in-Britain/Andrews-Palmer/p/book/9780367871840> (Routledge, 2016). Your questions and a discussion will follow, moderated by Professor Christopher Newfield, ISRF Director of Research. All are welcome, both to attend and to participate.
Registration at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-religion-and-spirituality-in-jamaican-reggae-dancehall-dance-registration-507403466427
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT
Indicative Schedule
6:00pm: Welcome & Introduction
6:10pm: 'H' Patten introduces 'Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance'
6:25pm: Panel Responses
7:00pm: Q&A/Discussion
7:30pm-9:00pm: Opportunity to continue informal discussion over drinks*
*Please note: this is a catered event - to assist us in ordering the right quantity of drinks (alcohol and soft drinks will be served), please do cancel your ticket if you will not be able to attend. If you will need to leave at 7:30pm, please let us know by emailing [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Stuart Wilson
Administrator
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ISRF Bulletin Issue 26 <https://issuu.com/isrf/docs/bulletin_26_full_digital_>
On Disability
The field of Disability Studies is flourishing. Over the past few decades, it has generated a truly interdisciplinary body of theoretical, sociological, historical, and critical scholarship that has not only done much to advance our understanding of disability itself but that has also made major contributions to other fields, including legal studies, political theory, ethnography, and sociology. This ISRF Bulletin aims to bring together and celebrate the contributions ISRF Fellows have made to the field of Disability Studies.
Featuring contributions from Alice Baderin, Beverley Clough, Elizabeth Evans, Steve Graby, Craig Jones, and Alison Wilde.
Read On… <https://issuu.com/isrf/docs/bulletin_26_full_digital_>
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