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Music-video era dancehall

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Music-video era dancehall describes the 1990s-2000s shift in which cable television, directed videos and later YouTube shaped dancehall's global image, making dancers, fashion and visual performance as important as the audio single.

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Story · ProbableIn front of the camera: the video vixen's own account

When Jamaican video vixens talk about the job themselves, the story is less about spectacle than about bookings, contracts and a path into other work.

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