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Contradicting this, during the making of Get Busy, 21-year-old Ramesh Christie, who was innocently watching the filming whilst in his car, was shot dead in an incident unconnected to the making of the video itself. This could potentially be a hint towards the learned helplessness of Jamaican Dancehall fans or a visual comment on how the organisers of these parties mean no harm. On top of this what I find most striking is just how obedient the party are. It’s suggested that authorities use their power as an “apparatus of domination” where “consumption of music in policed and marginalized, and spaces are in a context of displacement, state interventions and sanctions.” Is banging a furnace really worthy of being shut down? Does this represent Dancehall parties being shut down for the smallest thing? Whist reading, I realised that the positioning of Sean Paul’s party in a basement could be a reflection of the removed space that Dancehall events take place, and that the father figure is a representation of the authorities that will certainly find any excuse to shut these parties down.
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Jamaica’s Dancehall events exist on the periphery of society traditionally taking place in areas such as gully banks. However in terms of Dancehall performance spaces the freedom within the party counterbalances the control from authority outside. In the book I was reading, it was proposed that performance space could be thought of in terms of celebration and identity. The party ignoring this advice understandably gets carried away, starts banging the furnace again, so the father comes down and shuts it all off. During the song, the enthusiastic banging on the furnace by the audience provokes the father to stop playing dominoes, intrude on the party, and threaten to shut it down.
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Just to recap, if you have not seen Get Busy (above), it begins with Sean Paul arriving at what appears to be the house of a friend, greets the family and proceeds to the basement to perform. Then it occurred to me is there more to the location and the father/ authority figure in this video that I had originally though? Possibly not, but let me entertain this idea for a moment…. Recently I was on my 20,000 viewing of Get Busy whilst attempting to read about Dancehall parties and how the authorities in Jamaica respond to them. As a Sean Paul fan I often find myself passing away my precious spare time watching videos on YouTube as most people do.