TEDxIrie -Professor Carolyn Cooper - A Speck of Greatness: Repositioning Brand Jamaica.
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Professor Carolyn Cooper is a Jamaican author and literary scholar who has written extensively on cultural politics in Caribbean literature and popular culture - particularly reggae and dancehall music. She is the author of two books - Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' Body of Jamaican Popular Culture, 1993; and Sound Clash: ... Read more
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- -: TEDxIrie -Professor Carolyn Cooper - A Speck of Greatness: Repositioning Brand Jamaica.
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Professor Carolyn Cooper is a Jamaican author and literary scholar who has written extensively on cultural politics in Caribbean literature and popular culture - particularly reggae and dancehall music. She is the author of two books - Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' Body of...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Kaiton Williams - The Impact of Technology on Jamaican Culture
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Kaiton Williams is a Ph.D. student in Cornell's Information Science program and a senior engineer at Microsoft. He's also an occasional photographer, sporadic tweeter, forever failed blogger, and frequent flyer. He has been an instructor, a web designer, and a software developer for Goldman Sachs...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Mark A. Jones and Jacqueline Sutherland - Vision for ICT opportunities in Jamaica.
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Jacqueline Sutherland is the Founder & CEO of Global Gateway Solutions. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Math/Computer Science from Howard University, Wash, DC; Master of Science Telecommunications and Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Sutherland ...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Ebony G. Patterson - Fashion Ova' Style: Beauty, Gender & Masculinity
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Topic: Fashion Ova' Style: Conversations of Beauty, Gender & the Masculinity A graduate of the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts, Ebony is an Assistant Professor in Painting at the University of Kentucky. "Beauty, gender, body and the grotesque are on going discussion in my work....
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- -: TEDxIrie - Wayne Marshall - Jamaican musical innovations, foundation for modern cultural practice
May 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Topic: How Jamaican musical innovations have created a foundation for modern cultural practice Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist focusing on the popular music of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. Curr...
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