Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the UWI’s Mona Campus where she teaches Caribbean, African and African-American literature. She also co-ordinates the University’s embryonic Reggae Studies Unit, an academic project she initiated. Professor Cooper is the author ofNoises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the ‘Vulgar’ Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 1993) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
