Born a Sufferah: Dancehall Music's Insurgent Soundscapes

This book evaluates modern Black internationalism through the sonic insurgencies of Reggae and Dancehall.

Born as a sufferer in the 1970s, Dancehall is often framed by its lyrics of hyper masculinity. This has distorted its intertwined engagement with the politics of its older sibling Reggae—largely Rastafari's critique of the West as being of a Biblical Babylon. Both strains grappled with questions of a decolonizing and migrating Caribbean: hard times, concrete ecologies, and promised land...