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Sonjah Stanley Niaah

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Jamaican cultural-studies scholar at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and inaugural Rhodes Trust Rex Nettleford Fellow (2005), whose book 'DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto' (University of Ottawa Press, 2010) developed a 'performance geography' reading of the dancehall space across the Black Atlantic.

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UWI Mona; University of Ottawa Press; Small Axe.

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