ENTITY · EVENT
Uptown Mondays
Probable
Uptown Mondays is a Kingston weekly dance and nightlife event associated with 2000s dancehall selector culture, part of the event circuit that gave new songs, fashions and choreography a regular public testing ground.
At a glance
- Type
- event
- Confidence
- Probable
- Era
- Open era →
Connections
Debate & reception
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debate
The Noise Abatement Act vs the street-dance economy
Ongoing dispute over Jamaica's Noise Abatement Act (in force since 1997) and its curfews on all-night sound-system events. Residents, police and some officials treat street dances such as Passa Passa (Spanish Town Road/Tivoli Gardens, from 2003), Uptown Mondays and Weddy Weddy as a public-order and noise nuisance; promoters, selectors and dancers argue the crackdown 'cripples' events that are a livelihood and an informal cultural economy. The Jamaica Information Service reported planned stakeholder consultations on amending the Act, and the Jamaica Gleaner covered the industry side (e.g. 'Noise Abatement Act restricts music being turned into money', 2022; 'Dancehall's dancers go hungry', 2013).
Stance: street dance as neighbourhood noise/public-order nuisance vs street dance as legitimate inner-city cultural economy and livelihood