Soul rebels and dubby conquerors. Reggae and dancehall music in Germany in the 1990s and early 2000s

Pfleiderer, Martin

doi:10.1017/s0261143017000587

“…I think, for example, of research on hip-hop in the German context (e.g. El-Tayeb 2003;Weheliye 2009;Saied 2012), on Germany's reggae and dancehall scenes (Aikins 2005;Pfleiderer 2018) or on Eurodance (Thom 2016), which allow a more expansive definition of 'electronic dance music cultures' .…”

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Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (Jordi Nofre and Adam Eldridge, eds)

Hutton¹

2021

Dancecult

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Exploring Nightlife is a fascinating and insightful volume exploring often overlooked issues related to the "night" and those who inhabit it. The concepts of nightlife, night time, and urban nightscapes are closely scrutinised by the diverse authors in this collection. Nightlife for the purposes of this review is conceived as both the actual physical sites for the consumption of intoxicating substances and experiences, and as the location of such sites within city nightscapes. Therefore, nightlife, as the authors in this book highlight, refers to more than physical venues. It is a more fluid concept that can also refer literally to life at night: how the urban landscape is transformed after dark, and how the city at night is consumed by its often-diverse populations. As the editors note in their introduction to the book, nightlife is not new, but the regeneration and gentrification of urban areas is a phenomenon that has taken on increased significance in the post-industrial era of neo-liberalism. Such regeneration often has a relationship with nightlife, either by altering, sometimes radically, existing ebbs and flows of urban nightscapes or through the introduction and development of new nightlife areas and venues. The idea that this type of intervention and regeneration in inner city locations and other areas perceived as run down, risky and dangerous will "save" the area and its inhabitants while providing economic stimulation and profits is one that is critically interrogated in this volume. A variety of topics such as: harm reduction; power and resistance in city nightscapes throughout processes of gentrification and regeneration; resistance to regeneration as a form of social control; and the displacement of existing nightlife traditions, are explored by the authors in this volume providing a critical and nuanced discussion of some of the key themes related to nightlife and the city after dark.

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“…I think, for example, of research on hip-hop in the German context (e.g. El-Tayeb 2003;Weheliye 2009;Saied 2012), on Germany's reggae and dancehall scenes (Aikins 2005;Pfleiderer 2018) or on Eurodance (Thom 2016), which allow a more expansive definition of 'electronic dance music cultures' .…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture (Anita Jóri, Martin Lücke, eds)

Smith¹

2021

Dancecult

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Exploring Nightlife is a fascinating and insightful volume exploring often overlooked issues related to the "night" and those who inhabit it. The concepts of nightlife, night time, and urban nightscapes are closely scrutinised by the diverse authors in this collection. Nightlife for the purposes of this review is conceived as both the actual physical sites for the consumption of intoxicating substances and experiences, and as the location of such sites within city nightscapes. Therefore, nightlife, as the authors in this book highlight, refers to more than physical venues. It is a more fluid concept that can also refer literally to life at night: how the urban landscape is transformed after dark, and how the city at night is consumed by its often-diverse populations. As the editors note in their introduction to the book, nightlife is not new, but the regeneration and gentrification of urban areas is a phenomenon that has taken on increased significance in the post-industrial era of neo-liberalism. Such regeneration often has a relationship with nightlife, either by altering, sometimes radically, existing ebbs and flows of urban nightscapes or through the introduction and development of new nightlife areas and venues. The idea that this type of intervention and regeneration in inner city locations and other areas perceived as run down, risky and dangerous will "save" the area and its inhabitants while providing economic stimulation and profits is one that is critically interrogated in this volume. A variety of topics such as: harm reduction; power and resistance in city nightscapes throughout processes of gentrification and regeneration; resistance to regeneration as a form of social control; and the displacement of existing nightlife traditions, are explored by the authors in this volume providing a critical and nuanced discussion of some of the key themes related to nightlife and the city after dark.

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Multidirectionality and Collaborative Practice: Reggae and Dancehall Music between Germany and Jamaica

Schaub

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2022

Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies

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Against the backdrop of the global circulation of reggae and dancehall music, the article argues that the emergence of these genres in Germany resulted from multidirectional collaborations among musicians in Germany, Jamaica, and other places. Focusing on Gentleman and Seeed, Germany’s two most successful reggae artists, the article examines specific aesthetic forms and cultural practices as sites of multidirectionality and collaborative practice, such as the riddim, the feature song, the use of Jamaican Patois, and the journey to Jamaica. In the German case, the global dissemination and appropriation of Jamaican popular music resulted in the formulation of heterogeneous visions of transnational communities related to collaborative musical practices. At the same time, the article explains Gentleman’s and Seeed’s appropriation of this Black popular music culture as responses to their experiences in postwall Germany.

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Soul rebels and dubby conquerors. Reggae and dancehall music in Germany in the 1990s and early 2000s

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Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (Jordi Nofre and Adam Eldridge, eds)

Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (Jordi Nofre and Adam Eldridge, eds)

The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture (Anita Jóri, Martin Lücke, eds)

Multidirectionality and Collaborative Practice: Reggae and Dancehall Music between Germany and Jamaica

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