"They do as they please"
Subtitle: the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
By: Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Michele A.
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9789766402440; 9789766402457
Subjects: Social life and customs; Civilization; British influences; Social conditions; Creoles; Social classes
Other titles: Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
Notes: "This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-566) and index.
Table of contents: title: The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation; title: "Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture; title: Celebrating life, commemorating death : rites of passage; title: "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culture; title: "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity; title: "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance; title: "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals; title: "De tune you playing no de one I dancing" : popular entertainment; title: "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture; title: "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities; title: "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos; title: "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war; title: Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica.