In 1833, the Select Committee for Public Walks was introduced so that `the provision of parks would lead to a better use of Sundays and the replacement of the debasing pleasures.' Music was seen as an important moral influence and `musical cultivation ... the safest and surest method of popular culture', and ...
Who's that blaring out music night and day? It's Sisera's Boisterous Boyz! But the locals aren't happy about all the noise, so Judge Deb and her singing superstar Barak come up with the perfect plan: a battle of the bands!
The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged.
