Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society
- Editor: Nangwaya, Ajamu
- Editor: Onuora, Adwoa Ntozake
- Editor: Perkins, Anna Kasafi
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Contents
- Foreword: Dancehall Culture Upsetting Delicate Sensibilities vii
- CAROLYN COOPER
- Preface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ix
- VIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSON
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Prologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephensand the Power of Music to Transform Society 1
- ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
- Part 1: Who Is Tanya?
- 1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23
- AJAMU NANGWAYA
- 2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall's Ruff Rider 49
- MELVILLE COOKE
- 3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64
- TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE
- Part 2: "Still #1 with a #2 Pencil": Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
- 4 "The Sound of My Tears": Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79
- ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
- 5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93
- ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
- 6 "Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride": Tanya Stephens's Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113
- ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON
- 7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127
- NICOLE PLUMMER
- Part 3: "Put It on You": Tanya Stephens's Erotic Playbook
- 8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155
- ALPHA OBIKA
- 9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179
- SARA SULIMAN
- 10 "It's a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife": The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens's Civilized Man-Sharing 208
- CHAZELLE RHODEN
- 11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221
- KAREN CARPENTER
- Epilogue: "A Bunch of Righteous Freaks": Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243
- ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
- Appendix 263
- Contributors 265