Jamaica, Babylon on a Thin Wire
Author : Adrian Boot
Publisher :
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 9780500270813
Author : Adrian Boot
Publisher :
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 9780500270813
Author : Adrian Boot
Publisher :
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9782954121901
Author : Adrian Boot
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Harry S. Pariser
Publisher : Harry S. Pariser
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781556502538
Author : Terisa Turner
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780865433007
Arise! Ye Mighty People! witnesses the continuous resistance to the multiple oppressions leveled against women and men of color, throughout the world.
Author : Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1439901759
Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean Religions, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell provides a comprehensive study that respectfully traces the social, historical, and political contexts of these religions. And, because Brazil has the largest African population in the world outside of Africa, and has historic ties to the Caribbean, Murrell includes a section on Candomble, Umbanda, Xango, and Batique. This accessibly written introduction to Afro-Caribbean religions examines the cultural traditions and transformations of all of the African-derived religions of the Caribbean along with their cosmology, beliefs, cultic structures, and ritual practices. Ideal for classroom use, Afro-Caribbean Religions also includes a glossary defining unfamiliar terms and identifying key figures.
Author : Dick Hebdige
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134931034
First published in 1987. This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture.
Author : Ennis Barrington Edmonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0195133765
Traces the history of the Rastafarian movement, discussing the impact it has had on Jamaican society, its successful expansion to North America, the British Isles, and Africa, its role as a dominant cultural force in the world, and other related topics.
Author : Gregory Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521643931
Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley each inhabited the shared but contested space at the frontiers of race. Gregory Stephens shows how their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in a previously hidden interracial consciousness and culture, and integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one 'racial' or national group. Douglass ('something of an Irishman as well as a Negro') was an abolitionist but also a critic of black racialism. Ellison's Invisible Man is a landmark of modernity and black literature which illustrates 'the true interrelatedness of blackness and whiteness'. Marley's allegiance was to 'God's side, who cause me to come from black and white'. His Bible-based Songs of Freedom envisage a world in which black liberation and multiracial redemption co-exist. The lives of these three men illustrate how our notions of 'race' have been constructed out of a repression of the interracial.
Author : Stephen A. King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 1496800397
Who changed Bob Marley’s famous peace-and-love anthem into “Come to Jamaica and feel all right?” When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for American tourists? Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists. Visitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica’s poor. Rastafarians were once a target of police harassment and public condemnation. Now the music is a marketing tool, and the Rastafarians are no longer a “violent counterculture” but an important symbol of Jamaica’s new cultural heritage. This book attempts to explain how the Jamaican establishment’s strategies of social control influenced the evolutionary direction of both the music and the Rastafarian movement. From 1959 to 1971, Jamaica’s popular music became identified with the Rastafarians, a social movement that gave voice to the country’s poor black communities. In response to this challenge, the Jamaican government banned politically controversial reggae songs from the airwaves and jailed or deported Rastafarian leaders. Yet when reggae became internationally popular in the 1970s, divisions among Rastafarians grew wider, spawning a number of pseudo-Rastafarians who embraced only the external symbolism of this worldwide religion. Exploiting this opportunity, Jamaica’s new Prime Minister, Michael Manley, brought Rastafarian political imagery and themes into the mainstream. Eventually, reggae and Rastafari evolved into Jamaica’s chief cultural commodities and tourist attractions.