Daggering? I think we should take a look at the conversational movement in Jamaica culture my sister and others call it a reflection of the decay in our moral fabric “moral fabric gone”. I tend to agree with her but I want to investigate this from a somewhat “academic” musical point. Maybe this has been done already by Jamaican scholars such as Dr. Sonia Stanley Niaah, Dr.Donna Hope and Professor Carolyn Cooper.
It always comes back to culture doesn’t; is there something which is the nature of our culture that make overtly sexual expressions of this nature common in the dancehall? We don’t have a problem with sex, but we have a problem with daggering. I guess one could argue that daggering represents a lot of negative ideas about women and the treatmment of women in the dancehall; men and their attitudes towards sex.
Where it is connected offcourse is to the music in songs it spreads to a younger audience which sees even kids doing it. Now when we look at other music forms the usual categories Hip Hop, R+B etc do we find a similar pattern of overly sexual corresponding dance expressions? I am not going to continue to talk about it from a moral perspective but we need to seriousl start to invetsigate where our music and musical forms go. When we consider especially the potential of the cultural industries ( a fact made known to me by my friend Kamau who was saying it all the time but I didn’t understand then) the cause of daggering is not isoloated from the Jamaican musical product or Jamaican cultural content.
I guess the Japanese like it and some of us Jamaicas home and abroad as well. However how far can we seriously go with the Daggering. Let us start to gather some empirical data about this daggering.
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