About the Author

Sonjah Stanley Niaah is the inaugural Rhodes Trust Rex Nettleford Fellow in Cultural Studies (2005) and lectures in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies at Mona. With research interests around Black Atlantic performance geographies, ritual, dance, as well as popular culture and the sacred, Stanley Niaah is a leading author on Jamaican popular culture and Caribbean Cultural Studies more broadly.

Reviews

"DanceHall is a fascinating and scholarly look at [dancehall] music and its tie to Jamaican culture." - The Midwest Book Review "Stanley Niaah's knowledge of the elements of dancehall over the last two decades... is firsthand and encyclopaedic. Much of the value of this book is to be found in the way it documents the details of a culture so swiftly moving that it can seem impossible to document at all." -- The Caribbean Review of Books " the meticulously detailed research that Stanley Niaah presents in Dancehall provides us with an invaluable resource for thinking about dancehall events expansively, from a single event and all the corporeal, spatial, and aural elements that constitute it, to dancehall's global circulation." - Jeannine Murray-Roman, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Vol. 9, Iss. 1 [2012], Art. 10