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Reggae from Yaad : traditional and emerging themes in Jamaican popular music / Donna P. Hope.

Title
Reggae from Yaad : traditional and emerging themes in Jamaican popular music / Donna P. Hope.
Publication
Kingston : Ian Randle Publishers, 2015.

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Hope, Donna P.
Description
xiv, 214 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Reggae and Dancehall music and culture have travelled far beyond the shores of the tiny island of Jamaica to find their respective places as new genres of music and lifestyle. [This volume] pulls together a remarkable cast of contributors offering contemporary interpretations of the history, culture, significance and social dynamics of Jamaican Popular Music from varying geographical and disciplinary locations"--Back cover.
Subject
  • Reggae music > Jamaica > History and criticism
  • Popular music > Social aspects > Jamaica
  • Dance halls > Social aspects > Jamaica
  • Reggae music
  • Jamaica
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Conference papers and proceedings
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
'Bob Marley: the man I know' / Alan 'Skill' Cole; transcribed and verified by Donna P. Hope -- 'Production something': David Katz in conversation with Bunny 'Striker' Lee, King Jammy and Bobby Digital -- Expressions of reggae in Havana: processes of foreign influence and cultural appropriation / Jose Luis Fanjul Rivera -- 'You've got no time for me': Martin 'Sugar' Merchant, British Caribbean musical identity and the media / Shara Rambarran -- Freedom sound: music of Jamaica's independence / Heather Augustyn -- Your name a mention: media coverage of clashes/feuds in Jamaican popular music 1970-2010 / Donna P. Hope and Livingston A. White -- From dub plate to dancehall: versioning as an analogue template for digital reggae / Brent Hagerman -- Between 'murder music' and 'gay propaganda': policing respectibility in the debate on homophobic dancehall / Patrick Helber -- Good, good goodas gyal: decondstructing the virtuous woman in dancehall / Anna Kasafi Perkins -- The lyrical opus of Tommy Lee Sparta: masculinity, violence, sexulality and conflict / Winston C. Campbell.
ISBN
  • 9766378916
  • 9789766378912
OCLC
  • 925400061
  • SCSB-11067263
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library