Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society

Contents

• Foreword: Dancehall Culture Upsetting Delicate Sensibilities vii
• CAROLYN COOPER
• Preface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ix
• VIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSON
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Prologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephensand the Power of Music to Transform Society 1
• ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
• Part 1: Who Is Tanya?
• 1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23
• AJAMU NANGWAYA
• 2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall's Ruff Rider 49
• MELVILLE COOKE
• 3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64
• TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE
• Part 2: "Still #1 with a #2 Pencil": Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
• 4 "The Sound of My Tears": Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79
• ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
• 5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93
• ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
• 6 "Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride": Tanya Stephens's Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113
• ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON
• 7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127
• NICOLE PLUMMER
• Part 3: "Put It on You": Tanya Stephens's Erotic Playbook
• 8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155
• ALPHA OBIKA
• 9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179
• SARA SULIMAN
• 10 "It's a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife": The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens's Civilized Man-Sharing 208
• CHAZELLE RHODEN
• 11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221
• KAREN CARPENTER
• Epilogue: "A Bunch of Righteous Freaks": Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243
• ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
• Appendix 263
• Contributors 265