Rough Riding
Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society
Published on 30. November 2020
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Paperback/Softback
282 pages
978-976-640-795-7 (ISBN)
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Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society is a groundbreaking collection of articles that explore the contribution of the cultural worker, feminist organic intellectual, and controversial reggae and dancehall artiste Tanya Stephens. An accomplished lyricist on par with the genre's celebrated male performers, Stephens has been producing socially conscious and transformative music that is associated with revolutionary reggae music of the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors to this anthology - a diverse group of scholars, activists and reggae professionals - explore the range of ideas and issues raised in Stephens's extensive body of work and examine the important role cultural workers play in inspiring shifts in consciousness and, ultimately, the social order.Contributors: Tanya Batson-Savage, Elsa Calliard-Burton, Karen Carpenter, Melville Cooke, Ajamu Nangwaya, Adwoa Ntozake Onuora, Alpha Obika, Anna Kasafi Perkins, Nicole Plummer, Chazelle Rhoden, Sara Suliman
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kingston
Jamaica
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-976-640-795-7 (9789766407957)
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Adwoa Ntozake Onuora lectures in the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies.
Anna Kasafi Perkins is Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, the University of the West Indies, Vice Chancellery, Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. Her publications include Justice as Equality: Michael Manley's Caribbean Theory of Justice and Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections (co-edited with Donald Chambers and Jacqueline Porter).
Ajamu Nangwaya is a former lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is co-editor (with Michael Truscello) of Why Don't the People Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance and (with Kali Akuno) of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
Anna Kasafi Perkins is Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, the University of the West Indies, Vice Chancellery, Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. Her publications include Justice as Equality: Michael Manley's Caribbean Theory of Justice and Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections (co-edited with Donald Chambers and Jacqueline Porter).
Ajamu Nangwaya is a former lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is co-editor (with Michael Truscello) of Why Don't the People Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance and (with Kali Akuno) of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
Content
Foreword: Dancehall Culture Upsetting Delicate Sensibilities vii
CAROLYN COOPER
Preface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ix
VIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSON
Acknowledgements xiii
Prologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephensand the Power of Music to Transform Society 1
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
Part 1: Who Is Tanya?
1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23
AJAMU NANGWAYA
2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall's Ruff Rider 49
MELVILLE COOKE
3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64
TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE
Part 2: "Still #1 with a #2 Pencil": Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
4 "The Sound of My Tears": Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
6 "Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride": Tanya Stephens's Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113
ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON
7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127
NICOLE PLUMMER
Part 3: "Put It on You": Tanya Stephens's Erotic Playbook
8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155
ALPHA OBIKA
9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179
SARA SULIMAN
10 "It's a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife": The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens's Civilized Man-Sharing 208
CHAZELLE RHODEN
11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221
KAREN CARPENTER
Epilogue: "A Bunch of Righteous Freaks": Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
Appendix 263
Contributors 265
CAROLYN COOPER
Preface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ix
VIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSON
Acknowledgements xiii
Prologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephensand the Power of Music to Transform Society 1
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
Part 1: Who Is Tanya?
1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23
AJAMU NANGWAYA
2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall's Ruff Rider 49
MELVILLE COOKE
3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64
TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE
Part 2: "Still #1 with a #2 Pencil": Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
4 "The Sound of My Tears": Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
6 "Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride": Tanya Stephens's Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113
ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON
7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127
NICOLE PLUMMER
Part 3: "Put It on You": Tanya Stephens's Erotic Playbook
8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155
ALPHA OBIKA
9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179
SARA SULIMAN
10 "It's a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife": The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens's Civilized Man-Sharing 208
CHAZELLE RHODEN
11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221
KAREN CARPENTER
Epilogue: "A Bunch of Righteous Freaks": Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
Appendix 263
Contributors 265