Even though - having gone to UWI myself - I definitely think that the sticky streets of downtown Kingston are a better place to understand the dynamics of Jamaican reggae and dancehall culture than some air-conditioned classrooms up at Mona, there´s no doubt a good reason to deal with the matter on an academic level.

On the first weekend of July, the Global Reggae Conference - number seven in a series of conferences on Caribbean cultural studies - took place on Mona campus. UWI TV has the videos of all keynotes.

I haven´t had the time to check them all myself, but from the titles, these are the ones most likely to be interesting:

- Reggae Music as Social Catalyst

- Serious Ting - The Structure of Jamaican Popular Music

- Plenary - Reggae in Japan and Australia

- Imag(in)ing Reggae

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