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Norman C. Stolzoff

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United States anthropologist whose 'Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica' (Duke University Press, 2000), based on eighteen months of Kingston fieldwork in the 1990s, offered one of the first book-length ethnographies of the sound-system dance and read dancehall as an arena where class, race, gender and politics are contested.

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