Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance

<p>This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring foregrounding dance and cultural expression.</p><p>This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade Revivalism and Kumina alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies popular culture music theology cultural studies Jamaican/Caribbean culture and dance specialists.</p>