for better, or worse
Political rhetoric often equates “change” with “progress” and views progress as both necessary and inevitable for national and cultural survival. But the two words are not equal. Progress means movement…
Tag: Jamaica
Hurricane by Numbers: Archived and Amended in Real-Time (Oct 28- Nov 1, 2025)
Hurricane Melissa has been referred to as a “generational storm,” a term that feels aptly cultural to Jamaica where parents, grandparents, and great grands all have survival stories to tell…
kinky reggae or reggae queered?
What do we as listeners/ viewers do with Lipstick Lover’s nontraditional entangling of Jamaican sound with queerness?
at long last, we are forwarding into the future
The Past When I was a child growing up in the 1980s and 90s, I watched episodes of The Jetsons on Saturday mornings and I would be entranced by the…
what if it’s written in the wrong key?
Some may think that the manuscript paper, the vinyl, the tape, the cds, or even the digital mp3s will be what preserve the music of yesteryear so that future generations…
surely, there is a telephone to heaven
Let it go on the record that I do not care that we live in the immediate and global now. Being notified of a beloved’s passing via any medium other…
#MondayMusicMix
The weekend is over and the work week is in full swing. What better way to swing than with music? Because the question “what are you listening to?” pops…
in jamaica we have lawnmowers
I was all set to write a response to the extreme sport of snowplow parenting — you know the term that swept U.S. and world news in March of this…
