Jamaica

Jamaican Music – Nienke Veenstra
The cultural map I have created maps music development in Jamaica, with a focus on the 20th century. While music is something I am personally interested in, I also believe that the kind of music people produce is telling of their opinions, moods, (cultural) affiliations, and any type of tension or lack thereof that defines…
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Précis on the Cultural Map of the Multilingual Formation in Zong! – Wenjia Yang
This collection of pictures is about the imaginary moments of the origin of Jamaican Creole represented in Zong!. Impressed by the variety of non-English languages in the book, I traced the foreign words listed in Glossary, located the words I can identify and numbered them in a code which combines page number and line number…
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Jamaica – Iona van den Dries
This cultural map was based on various maps of Jamaica online and shifting between scales on Google Maps. The quotations are from chapters 1 and 3 of Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall, with Bill Schwarz (2017).
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