ENTITY · EVENT / DANCE
Weddy Weddy Wednesdays
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Weddy Weddy Wednesdays is a Kingston weekly dance associated with Stone Love Movement, important as a recurring space where selectors, dancers, artists and camera crews could test songs and moves in front of a live dancehall crowd. Conceived by Wee Pow, reportedly with Elephant Man, sources place its start somewhere between 2001 and 2004 without agreeing on the exact year. It is held at Stone Love HQ, 41 Burlington Avenue, Eastwood Park Gardens, St Andrew.
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Noise Abatement Act and street-dance lock-offs
One side
Residents' right to peace & lawful order
The other
Cultural space, livelihoods & the entertainment economy
A neutral account of the lock-off debate: enforcement of the Noise Abatement Act is defended as residents' right to peace and lawful order, and criticised as a threat to cultural space, livelihoods and the entertainment economy. No verdict.
Read the argument →The Noise Abatement Act vs the street-dance economy
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Street dance as neighbourhood noise/public-order nuisance
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Street dance as legitimate inner-city cultural economy and livelihood
Ongoing dispute over Jamaica's Noise Abatement Act (in force since 1997) and its curfews on all-night sound-system events. Residents, police and some officials treat street dances such as Passa Passa (Spanish Town Road/Tivoli Gardens, from 2003), Uptown Mondays and Weddy Weddy as a public-order and noise nuisance; promoters, selectors and dancers argue the crackdown 'cripples' events that are a livelihood and an informal cultural economy. The Jamaica Information Service reported planned stakeholder consultations on amending the Act, and the Jamaica Gleaner covered the industry side (e.g. 'Noise Abatement Act restricts music being turned into money', 2022; 'Dancehall's dancers go hungry', 2013).
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