A 'decolonial green' aesthetic: how roots reggae reflects and constructs Caribbean and Caribbean diasporic listeners' practices and attitudes towards

“非殖民绿色”美学：根源雷鬼如何反映和构建加勒比海和加勒比海散居听众的实践和态度

• 批准号: 2612945
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2612945
• 关键词: decolonial; green; aesthetic; how; roots

The research project will focus on the narratives of place, nature and environmental justice in African-Caribbean roots reggae. Whilst the literature on the distinct elements of the proposed research is growing rapidly, the field where these elements intersect is yet to be explored significantly. A deeper understanding of how our sometimes abstract understanding of the climate emergency interacts with culture, which features overtly in our everyday lives, is vital. As stated in the UN's recent report on the progress of the biodiversity goals set at COP10, governments across the globe have failed in placing value on, and integrating, traditional knowledge systems into strategies to protect the natural environment (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2020, 112). I argue that some of these alternative knowledge systems related to the environment are embedded within Caribbean music which has historically played an important role in the everyday.Ultimately the project will identify a 'decolonial green' aesthetic in the reggae paradigm principally through musical analysis, conversations with the reggae community in Jamaica and in cities and towns throughout theUK where significant numbers of the Caribbean Diaspora have settled, and the creation of an accessible archive on the research area. It will explore how roots reggae, for both performers and listeners, constructs and mediates the relationship with the surrounding environment. After all, the roots reggae singer possesses a "prophetic voice, the voice crying out in the wilderness, the griot voice speaking to society, the psalmist's voice" (Dawes 1999, 121). The research will not portray the global reggae community as homogenous, nor argue that roots reggae musical style is consistent in its representation of the natural world, but focus its analysis on a paradigmatic roots reggae style, whilst still examining some of the genre's subtleties.

该研究项目将侧重于非洲-加勒比根雷鬼中的地方，自然和环境正义的叙述。虽然关于拟议研究的不同要素的文献正在迅速增长，但这些要素交叉的领域尚未得到显着探索。更深入地了解我们对气候紧急情况的有时抽象的理解如何与文化相互作用，这在我们的日常生活中是至关重要的。正如联合国最近关于COP 10生物多样性目标进展情况的报告所述，地球仪各国政府未能重视传统知识体系并将其纳入自然环境保护战略（Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2020，112）。我认为，这些与环境有关的替代知识系统中的一些是嵌入在加勒比音乐，历史上发挥了重要作用，在日常生活中。最终，该项目将确定一个“非殖民地绿色”美学的雷鬼范式主要通过音乐分析，与牙买加的雷鬼社区和在整个英国的城市和城镇，其中大量的加勒比散居者定居，以及建立一个可访问的研究领域档案。它将探讨如何根雷鬼，为表演者和听众，建设和调解与周围环境的关系。毕竟，根雷鬼歌手拥有一个“预言的声音，声音在荒野中哭泣，对社会说话的griot声音，诗人的声音”（道斯1999年，121）。这项研究不会把全球雷鬼社区描绘成同质的，也不会认为根雷鬼音乐风格在其对自然世界的表现上是一致的，而是将其分析集中在一个典型的根雷鬼风格上，同时仍然研究了这种流派的一些微妙之处。