%0 Journal Article
%T Re-inventing the Past at Sunday Serenade: The Residual Cultures of a British Caribbean Dance Hall
%A Sherril Dodds
%J Anthropological Notebooks
%D 2010
%I Slovene Anthropological Society
%X In this article, I focus on Sunday Serenade, a British Caribbean club for the ¡®over 30s¡¯ in north-west London. Given how the participants identify with expressive music and dance practices from their Caribbean ¡®homeland¡¯, I commence by examining the extent to which Raymond Williams¡¯ (1973) concept of ¡®residual cultures¡¯ can be a useful lens through which to examine how Sunday Serenade is constructed as distinct from a dominant white culture. Yet in response, I argue that Williams¡¯ model produces a static understanding of culture that fails to recognise the complex staging of the participants¡¯ contemporary British lives. Therefore, I draw upon critical race studies and diaspora theory to explore how the participants of Sunday Serenade refuse to be contained within a discourse of sameness through their engagement with transnational music and dance practices, but promote a corporeality that is economically, culturally and socially distinct.
%K British Caribbean
%K Raymond Williams
%K popular dance
%K music
%K diaspora
%K race
%U http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/AN/PDF/2010_3/Anthropological_Notebooks_XVI_3_Dodds.pdf