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In this episode, our host Mariela Morales Su\xe1rez discusses the book\xa0Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power\xa0(UNC Press,\xa02022) by Dr. Larisa Kingston Mann.\nYou\u2019ll hear about:\n\nDr. Mann\u2019s intellectual trajectory and how she became interested in the topic of copyright in Jamaican popular music;\n\nThe concept of \u201crude citizenship\u201d through the Jamaican music world;\n\nWhat it means to be \u201coriginal\u201d from the perspective of copyrights, language, and diverse modes of cultural production in Jamaica;\n\nDr. Mann\u2019s writing process as a form of translation from fieldwork notes, archival materials, and music contents into ethnography;\n\nHow to make the classroom a meaningful pedagogical space by learning from marginal voices and practices;\n\nWhat constitutes the exilic spaces, namely, the reimagining of marginalized spaces as sites of agency and sovereignty through music and cultural production;\n\nThe transnational networks of the local music production in Jamaica and global flows of sonic resistance, especially during COVID-19.\n\nAbout the book\nIn this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann\u2014DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer\u2014identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood. Because many working-class and poor people are cut off from the full benefits of citizenship on the basis of race, class, and geography, Jamaican music spaces are an important site of social commentary and political action in the face of the state\u2019s limited reach and neglect of social services and infrastructure. Music makers organize performance and commerce in ways that defy, though not without danger, state ordinances and intellectual property law and provide poor Jamaicans avenues for self-expression and self-definition that are closed off to them in the wider society. In a world shaped by coloniality, how creators relate to copyright reveals how people will play outside, within, and through the limits of their marginalization.\nYou can find this book on the University of North Carolina Press\xa0website.\nAuthor:\xa0Larisa Kingston Mann\xa0is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University (PA, USA).\nHost:\xa0Mariela Morales Su\xe1rez\xa0is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in transnational media flows, technological appropriations, diasporic identity formation, and popular culture.\nEditor & Producer:\xa0Jing Wang.\xa0She is Senior Research Manager at CARGC at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.\nOur podcast is part of the multimodal project powered by the\xa0Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC)\xa0at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media and communication. We aim to bridge academic scholarship and public life, bringing the very best scholarship to bear on enduring global questions and pressing contemporary issues.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law