Performance geographies from slave ship to ghetto

Space and Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 343-360

  Niaah, Sonjah Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Black Atlantic; Blues; Dancehall; Dancehall culture; Dancehall space; Kwaito; Performance Geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049333854     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331207308334     Document Type: Review

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