Effeminate and feminine were recurrent expressions in documents and theological writings that sought to discipline musical practices in the Roman Catholic Church, characterizing the degeneration of the character through ...

Chutney soca is commonly perceived to be a fusion of chutney, an Indo-Trinidadian folk music performed during Hindu weddings, and soca, which is Afro-Trinidadian fête music that developed through a mixture of calypso with ...

The construction and policing of difference, including gender difference, is itself a form of violence. This kind of power relation also lays a basis for systemic expressions of violence, including the denial of human ...

The “Funk Carioca” has always been seen as a marginal rhythm by the press and certain segments of society. More recently, it has been used by the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community as a form of ...

This research arose from the need to investigate the relationship between the concept of artivism, gender studies and aspects of music education, and how this threefold concept could contribute to the construction of social ...

In recent years, with some notoriety, there has been a vibrant debate in Jamaica over the boundaries and contours of national identity in relation to sexuality and fundamental rights and freedoms. It has involved a broad ...