Prof. Carolyn Joy Cooper

Research Interests

• (W)uman Tong(ue): How Me See It - Observations on Jamaican Life
• Dancehall Philosophy
• The Art of Clash

Citations

Book, Whole

• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Noises in the blood: Orality, gender and the 'vulgar' body of Jamaican popular culture
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Sound clash: Jamaican dancehal culture at large
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Noises in the blood: Orality, gender and the 'vulgar' body of Jamaican popular culture
• Wint, Eleanor, Cooper, Carolyn J. Bob Marley: The man and his music

Book, Chapter

• Cooper, Carolyn J. Du reggae au ragga: que reste-t-il de la contestation?
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Hip-Hopping across cultures: crossing over from reggae to rap and back
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Jean Breeze
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Bob Marley
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Elean Thomas
• Cooper, Carolyn J, Devonish, Hubert St. L.. A tale of two states: Language, lit/orature and the two Jamaicas
• Cooper, Carolyn. I Shot the Sheriff: Gun Talk in Jamaica's Popular Music
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Mama, is that you?: erotic disguise in the films Dancehall Queen and Babymother
• Cooper, Carolyn. 'Welcome to Jamrock': Reggae Tourism and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica.
• Cooper, Carolyn. 'Meck West Indies Federate' : Celebrating the arts of regional integration in the poetry of Louise Bennett
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Lady Saw cuts loose: Female fertility rituals in Jamaican dancehall culture
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. 'Nah vote again': Representations of governance in Jamaican popular culture
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. 'Sense make befoh book': Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and The Colour of Forgetting
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Writing oral history: Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart Gal
• Cooper, Carolyn. 'Come to Jamaica and Feel Alright!': Marketing Reggae as Heritage Tourism
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Virginity revamped: Representations of female sexuality in the lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks

Journal, Article

• Cooper, Carolyn J.. 'West Indies plight': Louise Bennett and the cultural politics of federation
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Race and the cultural politics of self-representation: A view from the University of the West Indies
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Punany powah
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Lyrical gun: Metaphor and role play in Jamaican dancehall culture
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Enslaved in stereotypes: Race and representation in post-independence Jamaica
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Ragamuffin sounds: Crossing over from reggae to rap and back
• Cooper, Carolyn Joy. Self searching for substance : The politics of style in Earl Lovelace's ABrief Conversation and Other Stories
• Cooper, Carolyn J. Loosely talking theory: Oral/sexual discourse in Jamaican popular culture
• Cooper, Carolyn. At the crossroads - Looking for the meaning in Jamaica's dancehall culture: A Reply

• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Erotic Disguise : (Un)dressing the body in Jamaican dancehall culture
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Professing slackness : Language authority and power within the academy and without

Conference Proceedings

• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Mix up the indian with all the patwa': Ragamuffin sounds in 'cool' Britianna
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Branding Jamaica: Popular culture in 'postcolonial' context
• Cooper, Carolyn . Pedestrian crosses? Sites of dislocation in post-colonial Jamaica.
• Cooper, Carolyn. Burying Miss Lou: Contested rites of passage in contemporary Jamaica
• Cooper, Carolyn . Erotic maroonage: Embodying emancipation in Jamaican dancehall culture
• Cooper, Carolyn . No matter where you come from: Pan-Africanist consciousness in Caribbean popular culture
• Cooper, Carolyn J.. Rasta castle: Subversive word-play in the lyrics of Peter Tosh