Carolyn Cooper

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Carolyn Joy Cooper (* 1950 in Kingston , Jamaica ) is a Jamaican university professor and author . She is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Mona , Jamaica.

Career

Cooper initially studied English literature at the UWI . After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts there, she continued her studies at the University of Toronto in Canada, where she received her Master of Arts and her PhD in Philosophy.

Since her appointment as a lecturer at the UWI, Cooper has given courses on Caribbean, African and Afro-American literature and culture and has been researching different facets of reggae and its cultural backgrounds for over 20 years . She also works at UWI as director of the Institute for Caribbean Studies and as coordinator of the International Reggae Studies Center , an academic project she initiated in 1992. For the first time in 2007, Cooper organized the Global Reggae Conference at the UWI , at which academics, musicians and reggae fans met and discussed regional differences in the production and reception of reggae.

In her books Noises In The Blood (1993) and Sound Clash (2004), she primarily addressed the construction of gender roles in dancehall culture, which she viewed in relation to Jamaican society in general. Together with Eleanor Wint, she published the collection of essays Bob Marley: The Man and His Music in 2003 , which emerged from a symposium held in 1995 in honor of Bob Marley 's 50th birthday .

Cooper became known to a wider public through her weekly column (W) uman Tong (ue) published in the Jamaica Observer in the 1990s , which was written in English and Jamaican . Since then, Cooper has not limited herself to the academic environment, she writes a regular column in the Jamaica Gleaner and is presenter of the television program Big People Sup'm, broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica .

2019 it was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

Works (selection)

  • Carolyn J. Cooper, Noises In The Blood: Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture , London 1993.
  • Eleanor Wint, Carolyn J. Cooper, Bob Marley: The Man and His Music , Kingston 2003.
  • Carolyn J. Cooper, Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large , New York 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the Library of Congress Catalog Record, e.g. B. on Bob Marley: the man and his music (accessed October 2, 2010)
  2. ↑ a b taz interview, see under web links (accessed on September 28, 2010)
  3. ↑ Information page for a lecture on October 22, 2005 at York University, Keele Campus, Toronto (accessed September 28, 2010)
  4. ↑ Information page for a lecture on October 2, 2009 at Dartmouth College (accessed September 28, 2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Carolyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Carolyn Joy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica