Babylon East
Subtitle: performing dancehall, roots reggae, and Rastafari in Japan
By: Marvin D. Sterling.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780822347057; 9780822347224
Subjects: Rastafari movement -- Japan; Popular culture -- Japan; Subculture -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of presence : performing blackness in Japan; title: Music and orality : authenticity in Japanese sound system culture; title: Fashion and dance : performing gender in Japan's reggae dance scene; title: Body and spirit : Rastafarian consciousness in rural Japan; title: Text and image : bad Jamaicans, tough Japanese, and the third world "search for self"; title: Jamaican perspectives on Jamaican culture in Japan.