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| Life and Debt - Globalization and Jamaica |
Life and Debt - Globalization and Jamaica
Stephanie Black
1 hr 26 min - Nov 27, 2006
Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
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| Made In Jamaica |
Made In Jamaica
Qrizter
2 min - Oct 23, 2006
New movie out of Jamaica with, to name a few, Gregory Isaacs Capleton Elephant Man Bunny Wailer Toots Bounty Killer Tanya Stephens
Beres Hammond Third World Lady Saw
Sly&Robbie Vybz Kartel.
More info at http://www.madeinjamaicamovie.com/
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| Sean Paul Interview - Kingston, Jamaica |
Sean Paul Interview - Kingston, Jamaica
Atlantic
4 min - Sep 1, 2005
From Kingston Jamaica to International superstar; six million sold, gold in 15 countries and platinum in 11 countries; Sean Paul - The Trinity. Street opinions and interview with Sean Paul in Jamaica. More Sean Paul videos can be found at http://jalive.com.jm/VideoStreamSearch.asp?psearch=Sean+Paul
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| ROCKERS JAMAICA |
ROCKERS JAMAICA
everydaysunshine
3 min - Nov 7, 2006
Real value of this movie is as a snapshot of real life in Jamaica, outside of the tourist resorts. Most of the movie takes place in an urban setting (presumably Kingston, although part of the movie seems to take place in Ocho Rios) and this is really one of the closest looks you're ever going to get at the life of Jamaica's poor, working class musicians without going to Kingston in person. The musical performances are top-notch (especially a stunning a capella rendition of "Jah No Dead" by Burning Spear) A must-see for any fan of Jamaican music or culture admirer. Song is Satta Massagana originally sung by The Abyssinians
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079815/
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| Jamaica (Travelview) |
Jamaica (Travelview)
19 min - Jan 26, 2008
A romantic, enchanting island rich in beauty and culture. Tour the island beginning with the popular North Coast. Sail, snorkel and sun in Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Runaway Bay. Swim in Blue Lagoon in Rio Grande and visit Kingston, the capital where rhythmic sounds of reggae music can be heard, day and night. Jamaica, a perfect hideaway for those who want to retreat from civilization.
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| Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica |
Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica
1 hr 33 min - Aug 23, 2007
Margaret Mills, professor at Ohio State University, and Kenneth Bilby, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Department of Anthropology presented lectures in a program titled "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica" as part of the Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Mills discussed "The Same River: Dilemmas and Challenges of Long-term Cultural Research in Conflict Zones and Failing States." She first visited Afghanistan in 1969, while doing field archaeology and teaching high school English in Iran. The vibrancy of oral narrative and other performance traditions in the region inspired her career decision to study living verbal art in Persian language. She conducted two years of research for her dissertation on contemporary folktale performance in Persian-speaking Herat, in western Afghanistan, in 1974-1976. Afghanistan at the time was peaceful, uncolonized, rich in oral traditions, impoverished but making tentative progress in development as an unaligned state. The Marxist coup of 1978 and the ensuing anti-Soviet war, followed by civil war, created a 16-year hiatus in her contact with Afghan friends and associates. Two short return research visits, in 1994 and 1995, re-established her contacts with close friends from her first period of research but were followed by another seven-year separation during the period of Taliban dominance. Her Botkin lecture-discussion concerns long-term commitment to longitudinal cultural study and necessarily episodic presence in what became a war zone. "Private Stories, Public Folklore and Contested Histories in Jamaica: Taking the Long View with the Maroons" is the title of the talk presented by Kenneth Bilby. Bilby's first encounter with the Maroons of Jamaica was in 1977, when he arrived in the community of Moore Town. There he spent 14 months undertaking a study of relations between Maroons and their Jamaican neighbors as part of his research for a master's degree in anthropology. After multiple return visits to Jamaica, he is as involved as ever with the Maroons and the implications of what he learned among them. Descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped from plantations, fought the British colonists and won their freedom in 1739, the Maroons have survived as distinct ethnic groups to the present. Their heroic history inspired Toussaint L'Ouverture of Haiti, and in the 1930s led African-American cultural icons Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham to carry out pioneering anthropological research among them. The Maroons have retained a rich, historically deep, and clearly distinctive oral culture. His presentation focuses on the complexities and challenges of working with an oral culture that has traditionally been concealed from outsiders, yet has gained in political significance in an era characterized by conflicting claims over cultural authenticity and ownership of the past.
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| Nyahbinghi Jamaica |
Nyahbinghi Jamaica
7 min - May 26, 2008
Blood fi dem rasclaat, yunno ! Faya ::<br /><br />I and I is the true sons of RasTafarI ::<br /><br />RasTa no want no blood fi drink ::<br /><br />Ganj' wha ? GanJAH !<br /><br /><a href="http://www.consciencerasta.info/blog/">http://www.consciencerasta.info/blog/</a>
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| Jamaica, Caribbean: Culinary Travel - Travel Video PostCard |
Jamaica, Caribbean: Culinary Travel - Travel Video PostCard
59 sec - May 21, 2007
Jamaica resorts are wonderful. But Culinary Travel at The Royal Plantation Spa and Golf Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, is even better. This Jamaican luxury resort is one of the Caribbean’s and Jamaica’s true luxury resorts. Royal Plantation offers a sensual experience: Culinary Travel, cooking classes with the best Jamaican food and Jamaican cuisine. Caribbean Culinary Travel is a new way to travel. Royal Plantation offers classes in Jamaican cooking using Jamaica’s fresh produce and exotic spices. Few Resorts in Jamaica offer Culinary Tours, hands-on cooking classes using Royal Plantation’s master chefs, to take guests into Jamaica’s authentic markets where they explain Caribbean and Jamaican fruits, vegetable and spices. You’ll cook with Ackee, a fruit from the roadside trees, and prepare with the Royal Plantation Resort’s chefs Culinary Class meals with salt fish and Callaloo. Travel Video PostCard™ shows you one of Jamaica’s best resorts, a top resort in Jamaica, Royal Plantation with beautiful beaches and lively Reggae music. It also introduces us to Culinary Tours, Culinary Vacations, Cooking Holidays and Cuisine classes at Royal Plantation. Food lovers and beach lovers: Culinary Classes at Royal Plantation are a must. Lovers seeking romantic travel love Royal Plantation
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