Hope, Donna P.
Author Affiliation, Ana.
Passa passa: Interrogating cultural hybridities in Jamaican dancehall
Small axe: a Caribbean journal of criticism
Date of Publication
This article contributes to discussions on cultural hybridity and extends the debates on dancehall culture. It uses the 'mix up and blender' of a dancehall street dance, Passa Passa, to examine hybridity from the viewpoint of dancehall culture as it participates in the sociocultural construction of personhood, meanings, and knowledge from within the restrictive and marginalized spaces designated for its primary creators, members of the black, lower-class, and inner cities of Jamaica.....