Should the academy study dancehall?
One side
Scholarship validating a maligned folk expression
The other
'elevating vulgarity' critique
What was argued
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.
The records this concerns
Sources
Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood; Small Axe / sx salon; Jamaica Gleaner/Observer commentary