ASHLEY WEINBERGis a Chartered Psychologist with 20 years' experience consulting, researching, teaching, and writing courses on the topics of stress and mental health in the workplace. He is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Salford, UK, where he led the establishment of the Psychology Department. He is a British Psychological Society media contact and is a regular contributor to television and radio broadcasts, as well as newspaper articles on psychological well-being and organizational behavior. Dr Weinberg runs workshops for diverse audiences ranging from psychiatrists to dentists and journalists to business managers and he has conducted studies on national politicians, social workers, healthcare staff and university employees. He is editor of The Psychology of Politicians (2012), and author of Organizational Stress Management: A strategic approach (with Val
Sutherland and Cary Cooper in 2010) and Surviving the Workplace - A Guide to Emotional Well-being (with Cary Cooper in 2007).

CARY COOPERis Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University, UK. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Editor of the journal Stress and Health and President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is President of RELATE and Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences (a body comprising 43 learned societies in the social sciences with over 86,000 social scientists). Caryalso serves on the Global Agenda Council on Health and Wellbeing of the World Economic Forum and has been made an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society and awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to higher education. He has a number of honorary doctorates from universities and received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. Professor Cooper was honoured with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2001.

Carolyn Cooper's book is the first accessible book on the topic - it is far more readable that Stolzoff's book, and there is very little else on this increasingly popular music

Cooper looks at all aspects of the dancehall phenomenon - the parties, the lyrics, the musicians, the dancehalls, the cult films they inspired, the infamous internal feuds (she lives in Kingston so is up on all the latest gossip)

The musicians themselves are flamboyant and fascinating enough to sell the book - the albino pedophile Yellow Man, the sexy singer Lady Saw who performs wearing a g-string (only), lecturing women to not be used as sex objects, etc etc

In the last 4-5 years dancehall has infiltrated mainstream hip hop radio stations (such as HOT 97 in New York) and parties in this country, first on the East Coast then on the West Coast. It is a rising phenomenon, and has been called "the next hip hop"

Introduction: Word, Sound & Power Border Clash: Sites of Contestation Slackness Personified: Representations of Female Sexuality in the Lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks Lady Saw Cuts Loose: Female Fertility Rituals in the Dancehall 'Mama, is That You?': Erotic Disguise in the Films Dancehall Queen and Babymother 'Lyrical Gun': Metaphor and Role-Play in Dancehall Culture 'More Fire': Chanting Down Babylon from Bob Marley to Capleton 'Vile Vocals': Exporting Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics to Barbados Hip-Hopping Across Cultures: Reggae to Rap and Back Mix up the Indian with all the Patwa: Rajamuffin Sounds in Cool Britannia The Dancehall Transnation: Language, Literature and Global Jamaica