Dancehall music in Ghana: Donna P. Hope defines dancehall culture as a space for the cultural creation and dissemination of symbols and ideologies that reflect the lived realities of its adherents, particularly those from the inner cities of Jamaica.Dancehall culture actively creates a space for its affectors (creators of dancehall culture) and its affectees (consumers of dancehall culture) to take control of their own representation, contest conventional relationships of power, and exercise some level of cultural, social and even political autonomy. Kingsley Stewart outlines ten of the major cultural imperatives or principles that constitute the dancehall worldview. They are: It involves the dynamic interweaving of God and Haile Selassie It acts as a form of stress release or psycho-physiological relief It acts as a medium for economic advancement The quickest way to an object is the preferred way (i.e., the speed imperative) The end justifies the means It strives to make the unseen visible Objects and events that are external to the body are more important than internal processes; what is seen is more important than what is thought (i.e., the pre-eminence of the external) The importance of the external self; the self is consciously publicly constructed and validated The ideal self is shifting, fluid, adaptive, and malleable, and It involves the socioexistential imperative to transcend the normal (i.e., there is an emphasis on not being normal)
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