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UWI Reggae Studies Unit

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The Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona — the scholarly home of Jamaican popular music study, running research, publications and conferences. It is the main academic counterweight to a history otherwise held in private collections, tape libraries and memory.

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Should the academy study dancehall?

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Scholarship validating a maligned folk expression

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'elevating vulgarity' critique

A neutral account of the debate sparked by dancehall scholarship: academic study is defended as overdue validation of a maligned folk expression, and criticised by some as 'elevating vulgarity'. The atlas records the disagreement without endorsing either view.

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