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Intellect is delighted to announce that the special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 9.1 is now available.

 

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This issue features an exciting range of Reggae Studies in a Global Context.

 

Themes include but are not limited to:

 

• History of Reggae

• Reggae as culture

• Reggae Music and Media

• Musical and sociological analysis of Reggae Music

• Reggae’s Influence on Global Popular Music

• Global manifestations of Reggae Music

• The Bob Marley phenomenon

• Sound-Systems and other Reggae Music collectives

• Reggae Films and videos

• Reggae Music in the context of creative industries

 

 Articles within this issue include (partial list):

 

Rockers,‘soulheads and lovers: Sound systems back in da day

Authors:  Michael McMillan 

Page Start: 9

 

This article explores the emergence of sound system culture in Britain, from post-war Caribbean migration to the early 1980s, in terms of House and Blues parties, clubs and dancehalls, bass culture, dance-floor corporeality, and raver’s sartorial aesthetics and interventions, with reference to oral history interviews with sound system pioneers, practitioners and ravers from my installation-based exhibition, Rockers, Soulheads & Lovers: Sound Systems Back in Da Day 

 

Documenting London’s bass culture and blues dances:Reggae in the films of Horace Ové and Franco Rosso

Authors:  Kate Bolgar Smith 

Page Start: 29

 

This article provides an analysis of two black British feature films – Horace Ové’s 1975 film, Pressure and Franco Rosso’s 1980 film, Babylon – and integrates the films into a wider discussion of life in Britain during the 1970s–80s. Drawing on the musical and cultural theories of Paul Gilroy and on the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson’s concept of ‘bass culture’, the author argues that reggae creates what Clare Corbould calls an ‘aural community’ that is simultaneously local and transnational. 

 

Levels of locality and recent expressions ofreggae in Mexico

Authors:  Christian Eugenio López-Negrete Miranda 

Page Start: 79

 

This article discusses various issues surrounding the presence of Jamaican popular music in Mexico and focuses on issues of great importance as the arrival, development, adoption and adaptation of these musical practices that arise in specific times or time periods; in different levels of locality that are related to each other, at the same time related to the global; and that they express themselves by reinterpreting these genres in their own ways.