![]() ![]() ![]() In these discussions, perceptions of the proper Israeli national culture and identity are juxtaposed with assumptions about the nature and perceived influence of the shift from public state monopoly in television broadcast to a globalized commercial multichannel broadcast environment. This program, widely perceived as epitomizing contemporary Israeli national identity, is simultaneously also debated as the product of globalization, and as marker of a post-national/post-Zionist era. Prime Time Postzionism - Negotiating Israeliness through Global Television Formats looks at the Israeli reality competition show – Kohav Nolad (“A Star is Born”) as a key text to help explore the ways in which Israeli broadcasters in the contemporary commercial television environment, adapt globally dominant televisual forms as models for the production of extremely popular local series. Through popularized lyrics and exaggerated performance styles, popular dancehall culture re-presents these discourses of identity and provides a key space for the negotiation of black masculinity and identity in Jamaica within the race/class/colour and gendered structures of power that create and maintain hierarchies of personhood. These men draw on different and often symbolic strategies, including consumption, masquerade and performance, to seek and extend their identity and masculine status. I do not argue for the homogeneity of this form of masculine identity but suggest that this highly consumptive and performative identity reflects the socio-political and economic status of particular groups of black men in Jamaican society who are denied real access to resources and power in the formal structures in the society. It suggests that by utilizing publicly consumptive practices in the fluid space of the dancehall, the British Link-Up Crew draws on local and global factors to re-present a form of masculinity that has arisen organically from Jamaican society. This paper examines identity construction and performance in Jamaican dancehall culture.
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