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Jun 8, 2014 · The new Ken Loach film, Jimmy's Hall, set in 1930s Leitrim, would never have happened were it not for a meeting between an Irish playwright and a Scottish lawyer in Nicaragua 30 years ago.
It was not a great success, perhaps because the world depicted (factory work, tenement flats, the suburban Palais dance hall) was too familiar to much of the urban audience. It would have been considered quite 'realistic' in 1950, although Petula Clark later observed how well-spoken these factory girls were.
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Sep 10, 2012 · Perhaps the closest the British cinema of its period came to a neo-realist fresco: a matrix of low-key melodramatic narratives converging on the communal (rather than institutional) core of the...
- The Origins of Dancehall
- Barrington Levy and The Rise of The British Mc
- Digital Dancehall
- Dancehall Goes Global
Dancehall got its name because that’s where it was born: in the places where sound systems played reggae music. In Jamaica, that was often not a hall at all, but an open space – a “lawn” in original dancehall parlance – but the culture was the same. Sound systems had a strong tradition of having live entertainers take the mic while records played –...
The big personality was Barrington Levy, and the unusual story was the rise of the British MC. Levy is one of those reggae singers who gives his music everything he has, willing to pop his eyeballs in the interest of getting that vital lyric across. Big not only in Jamaica, but with the Jamaican posses in Britain and the US East Coast, Barrington v...
In Jamaica, the sound shifted to ragga, a “digital” (i.e. fully electronic) form of dancehall in 1985, and from 1987 onwards an array of Jamaican performers saw major-label releases in the UK in search of chart action. Island Records signed Chaka Demus & Pliers, a DJ-singer combination that delivered a series of pop hits, including “Tease Me,” a co...
But in terms of pop music absorbing dancehall, that doesn’t matter. Dancehall had established its chart credentials: it was time for pop to rehash what it had heard. In 2004, Gwen Stefani teamed up with Eve and hit with “Rich Girl,” based on a song from the 60s musical Fiddler On The Roof, but the dancehall audience knew its inspiration was Louchie...
Aug 5, 2021 · There’s obviously enough of the pie to go around for everyone, but a peculiar issue has reared its ugly head amidst the wild success of the two burgeoning iconic Dancehall talents, a theory some have posited could explain, in large part, why the 24-year-old Shenseea seems to be on such a meteoric rise, while Spice, 38, – the current ...
Apr 19, 2012 · The thesis of this paper is that dancehall, a dance expression emerging from the inner-city communities of Kingston, Jamaica, is fundamentally global, being an outcome of centuries of varied dance expressions, predominantly African but with European influences as well.
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Natasha Parry ( Romeo & Juliet, Oh, What A Lovely War!) stars as Eve, whose marriage to Phil ( Donald Houston, The Longest Day, Room at the Top) is imperilled when she takes a different partner for an upcoming dance contest. Her reasoning is that Phil is a lousy dancer, but she loves him all the same; Phil, however, is the jealous type, who ...
