Babylon East
Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan, by Marvin D. Sterling, an ethnographic analysis of Japanese engagement with elements of Jamaican popular culture. Charting the popularity of music, dance, and Rastafari belief among Japanese audiences — via festivals and concerts, websites and music videos — Sterling suggests “alternative discourses” of ethnicity beyond “an imagination of race seen only in Western and non-Western terms,” even as Japanese reggae and dancehall musicians reshape “the multivalently politicised performative fields of an Afro-Asian encounter.”
Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-4722-4, 299 pp.
[from Caribbean Review of Books]
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