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Paper discusses Donna P. Hope's article on Dancehall and Passa Passa in contemporary Jamaica which refers to hybridity, identity, and other theoretical terms. However, when one reseaches a little on the poor Kingston area to which Hope refers, one finds inaccuracies. Hope has been so devoted to theory that she has not fully investigated a changed Tivoli Gardens area, for instance. Her own outlook and class origins are plain; several articles correcting opinion on Tivoli Gardens; also, widescale opposition to Passa Passa across social classes.

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`Dancehall' in Kingston, Jamaica: Whose Culture & Whose Identity? Introduction Donna P. Hope was a Fulbright scholar when she studied Jamaica's dancehall phenomenon towards the article that this paper discusses. (2006) Hope also published, Inna Di Dancehall - Popular Culture & the Politics of Identity in Jamaica, using the same approach. (2006) The article is very theoretical so that in preparing this paper, time was taken to learn a little of the environment described by Hope, as was revealing. he West Kingston `garrison' area of Tivoli Gardens where Passa Passa originated is a world away from Hope's own origins or outlook, but her main concern has

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