{"product_id":"king-yellowman","title":"King Yellowman","description":"\u003cp\u003eJamaican deejay\nYellowman divided a country with his bawdy songs and his very body: he has been\nwildly popular among dancehall fans, yet widely despised by polite society. Even\nthough his contribution to Jamaican musical culture is immense, scholars have\nignored him and reggae histories have largely misunderstood him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Yellowman:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeaningful\nBodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe first serious study of one Jamaica's most significant artists\nand dancehall’s first major international star. It is a critical biography designed\nto satisfy fans while furthering academic discourse on dancehall by offering a\nnew perspective on the way Yellowman negotiates the slackness\/culture binary in\nJamaican music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on years of ethnographic\nfieldwork, Brent Hagerman begins with the compelling story of Winston Foster’s\nearly life as an abandoned ghetto outcast and his hard-fought journey to become\nthe King of Dancehall, then goes on to a critical exploration of the\nmarginalization of people with albinism in Jamaica and the use of slackness in\nCaribbean music. Through slackness and his mobilization of Rastafarian symbols,\nYellowman subverts embedded Jamaican cultural notions of sexuality, gender, and\nrace to overcome his cultural displacement, promote his yellow body as sexually\nappealing and forge a place for himself among the Jamaican body politic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of the West Indies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57259349147992,"sku":"9789766408510","price":46.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9789766408510_5c34e17d-11f6-48ba-892e-113af347be79.jpg?v=1778804126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/king-yellowman","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}