Time and Memory in Reggae Music : The Politics of Hope.
Sarah. Daynes
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (311 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | TIME AND MEMORY IN REGGAE MUSIC: THE POLITICS OF HOPE -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and boxes -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: A study in elective affinity: Music, religion, memory -- 1. Reggae and Rastafari: A short history -- 2. Interpreting songs: Notes on methodology -- 3. A diachronic analysis of Jamaican reggae charts, 1968 -2000 -- 4. The construction of a musical memory -- Part II: Remembering the past -- 5. Slavery and the diaspora: Temporal and spatial articulations -- 6. The construction of a religious chain of memory -- Part III: Revealing the future -- 7. Messianism, between past and future -- 8. Hope and redemption -- 9. The eschatology as future-present -- 10. The construction of a socio-political memory -- Part IV: From revelation to revolution -- 11. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique -- 12. Only rasta can liberate the people: Resistance and revolution -- Part V: Conclusion -- 13. Time and memory -- Annex 1: List of songs mentioned, by artist -- Annex 2: Albums in the corpus -- Bibliography -- Index.. - On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.
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| ISBN | 9781847792877
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