Had a good time at #BountyVsBeenie dancehall clash? Here are a few sources to contextualize the political and performative dimensions of dancehall, for example-- the police interfering, Bounty's Fendi blazer, and Beenie's Gucci pants and loafers

Donna Hope's @donnaphope Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall explores Jamaican masculinity through the male-dominated dancehall. Check out the chapter, "Fashion Ova Style: Dancehall's Masculine Duality" https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/man-vibes-masculinities-in-the-jamaican-dancehall

Sonia Stanley Niaah's @SonjahStanley DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto examines dancehall's migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dancehall-from-slave-ship-to-ghetto

Here's also a great lecture by @SonjahStanley: Dancehall Performance, Visual Communication and the Philosophy of 'Boundarylessness'

Check out Ruddy (Radcliffe) Roye's photo series, Dancehall in the Wake of Daggering. Roye is a Brooklyn-based Jamaican photographer whose work you can also follow on Instagram. http://ruddyroye.com/galleries/dancehall--in-the-wake-of-daggering/

For my religious studies/Africana religions folks, check out Melvin Butler's "Dancing Around Dancehall: Popular Music and Pentecostal Identity in Transnational Jamaica and Haiti." It's in Henke and Magister's volume, Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean.