Music-Genres & Styles-Reggae

What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes...

This book evaluates modern Black internationalism through the sonic insurgencies of Reggae and Dancehall. Born as a sufferer in the 1970s, Dancehall is often framed by its lyrics of hyper masculinity. This has distorted its intertwined engagement with the politics of its older sibling...

Considering the complex history and unique identity of the Caribbean islandsThe image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the West as it is the result of its population's incredibly complex identity. A melting pot of races born of the 400-year slave...

Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique pioneered in Jamaica as far back as 1967. Recording engineers produced reggae...

In his new book, Jaffe reveals the world of the Wailers during their early years as an international act from 1973 to 1975, a socially and politically transformative period in Jamaican history. He also explores the start of Peter Tosh's solo career in 1976...

Pressure Drop chronicles reggae's most tumultuous and influential decade. Beginning in 1970 and unfolding both in Britain and Jamaica, reggae flourished against a backdrop of political upheaval, gang warfare, Black Nationalism, racial and class discrimination and grinding poverty. The music that developed as rocksteady...

DUB, The Sound of Surprise is a detailed chronicle and fascinating guide to the captivating history of Jamaican dub music, the first of its kind. This archetype of the remix style grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The book...

An inspiring collection of poems, meditations, and lyrics by one of the world's most revered musical legends Bob Marley's music defined a movement and forever changed a nation. Known worldwide for their message of peace and unity, Marley's songs--from "One Love" to "Redemption Song"...

'This collection of timeless photographs gives us an up close inside look at this uniquely complex man and brilliant iconic artist who forever changed the world. One love...' - Lenny KravitzRebel Music is a tribute to one of the greatest legends in world music,...

On assignment in Jamaica for Time magazine in 1976, David Burnett photographed Bob Marley at his Tuff Gong home in Kingston, Jamaica, and then on the start of the seminal Exodus tour. Capturing the legend at an exceptional moment in time, Burnett's work intersects...

The End of the Road is a book written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. The book is a collection of short stories that explore the themes of love, loss, and redemption. The stories are set in different parts of the world and feature a diverse cast...

Explore the rich heritage, contemporary culture, and society of the Virgin Islands by delving into its wonderful music. Dale Francis, a resident of the Virgin Islands whose ancestry there dates back to the early 1700s, examines what Africans, Europeans, and Tainos contributed to Virgin...

Recently resurrected and now enjoying chart success in the 21st century, when it was formed Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976. With a blizzard of individual labels and a marketing strategy that involved selling product out of the...

--A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year--An Uncut Book of the Year --Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize --A Louder Than War Book of the Year --A Blitzed Magazine Book of the Year In 1979, 2 Tone Records exploded into the consciousness of...

Twenty years after Bob Marley's untimely death he remains a powerful worldwide presence. His music is at the top of the reggae charts, while his memory is indelibly etched in the minds of millions of his followers. In the last two years of his...

Author: Roger SteffensISBN-10: 1665144041ISBN-13: 9781665144049Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 0.60d

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. Author: 'H' PattenISBN-10: 0367539713ISBN-13: 9780367539719Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2024Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d

Created in the UK, the genre of music termed Lovers Rock has its roots firmly in Jamaica, reggae's originating home. In fact some classic Jamaican reggae love songs are included in this story, which is dedicated to all who know what Lovers Rock was,...

The third and final edition about the legendary Double Door Inn music venue, which brought many to Charlotte, NC for over 43 years. This is the story of the musicians that played the Double Door, and the family that brought it to life.Author: Debby...

A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry's legendary recording studioA 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee...

The Vermont Reggae Festival, born in Burlington Vermont in 1986, became an historic event forever etched into the musical history of the city. Achieving the manifestation of peace, love, celebration of life, joy, fun, and excitement through the power of Reggae music. The Vermont...

"This memoir will go down as required reading in years to come." - Flea Market Funk, DJ Prestige "A remarkable, and still ongoing, journey." - The Daily Beast, Pat Meschino VP Records co-founder, and one of the reigning matriarchs of Reggae music, Patricia "Miss...

An engaging literal account of how three prodigious talents ply and impact a nation of millions with their reactionary music. Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the 90s and...

Learn Authentic Rhythm & Lead Parts for Reggae, Ska, Rocksteady, Dub and MoreIt's no understatement to say that reggae music forever changed the world. A compelling mix of soul, jazz, R&B and Jamaican mento, it's the ultimate feel good music with its hypnotic, laidback...

Life Beyond Reggae Music offers the greatest reading and learning experience for lovers of reggae, music, Jamaican culture and is a fulfilling read for book lovers around the world; providing never before documented facts from some talented reggae artists we know and love. Author:...

REGGAE AND CARIBBEAN MUSIC: THIRD EARAuthor: Dave ThompsonISBN-10: 0879306556ISBN-13: 9780879306557Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 546Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.23h x 7.37w x 1.29dReview Citation(s): American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 522

ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary...

Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, the Itals, the Ethiopians--they all dropped dazzling proverbs into their best-known reggae tunes. "What come bad in the morning, can't come good in the evening." "They love to give you a basket to carry water." "The harder the...

The acclaimed, definitive and essential guide to 1980s Jamaican Dancehall--featuring hundreds of photographs with interviews and biographiesThis widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle. With unprecedented access to the incredibly...

From the early 1960s, and even before that, it was not uncommon in Jamaica for artists to record their own versions of songs by US performers. Not surprising, since these songs were extremely popular on the island, as the early sound system pioneers imported...

An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international...

These plenary lectures from the "Global Reggae" conference convened at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 2008 eloquently exemplify the breadth and depth of current scholarship on Jamaican popular music. Radiating from the Jamaican centre, these illuminating essays highlight the "glocalization"...

This book speaks to the remarkable global reach and influence of Caribbean musics and investigates Caribbean women, music and identity.Author: Ifeona FulaniISBN-10: 9766402663ISBN-13: 9789766402662Publisher: University of the West Indies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2012Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2013

Copeland Forbes is one of the most consequential figures in the history of modern Jamaican music. Through his roles as personal and tour manager for some of the most iconic personalities in music, Forbes has been a witness to and a participant in some...

Nesta Robert Marley comes alive in this unique collection of classic, rare and unseen photographs; from Trench Town to becoming the first Reggae superstar and an icon of the Rastafarian religion. Bob Marley is seen here on stage, on the pitch and at leisure...

For more than six decades, reggae legend Glen DaCosta has worked as a musician, songwriter and producer. As a session player, his distinctive sax sound backed many international reggae stars at Joe Gibbs' Studio and Lee Scratch Perry's Blackheart Studio. Twenty-two years in the...

(Ukulele Play-Along). The Ukulele Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro Just follow the written music, listen to the audio tracks online using the code printed...

In 1973 young artist and filmmaker Lee Jaffe met Bob Marley in New York City and within hours cemented a friendship that would see Jaffe becoming a "Wailer" right down (or up) to his dreadlocks. While Marley was well known in Jamaica, he was...

In a multidisciplinary work spanning musicology, electro-acoustic composition, architecture, urban studies, communication, phenomenology, social theory, physics, and psychology, Jean-Fran輟is Augoyard, Henry Torgue, and their associates at the Centre for Research on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment (CRESSON) in Grenoble, France, provide an alphabetical...

(Drum Play-Along). Play your favorite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along series Just follow the drum notation, listen to the audio to hear how the drums should sound, then play along using the separate backing tracks. The lyrics are also included for...

--Selected for the In the Margins Book Awards 2024 Top Ten Title List and 2024 Nonfiction Recommendation List "In this inspiring, often harrowing narrative, the author chronicles how, shortly after he turned 3, he was abandoned by his parents and placed in the care...

Since its emergence in the mid-1970s, Reggae has had a truly global impact around issues of freedom, unity and human rights. Using reggae festivals as the main site of inquiry, Reggae Pilgrimages accounts for the expansion of the reggae musical landscape through global festivals...

This book focuses on underexplored aspects of Bob Marley in relation to media representation, connecting the two through forms of political discourse and ideologies relevant to social change in different contexts globally, such as civil rights, anti-racism, Rastafari, and liberation movements.Author: Mike HajimichaelISBN-10: 1538165457ISBN-13:...

In the vein of Sound Man and The Soundtrack of My Life, a lyrical memoir from the founder of one of the greatest music labels of all time, Island Records, about his astonishing life and career helping to bring reggae music to the world...

What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognising the importance that people attach to musical performances, this book explores the significance of widespread Caribbean genres in diaspora politics. Tina K. Ramnarine uses ethnographic approaches...

It's over forty years since The Jam inspired a new generation with their All Mod Cons album - released in the dying months of 1978. But the Mod revival was far more than just a one-band phenomenon inspired by the arrival of the film...

Jamaica is a small country in the Caribbean, 146 miles wide and populated by fewer than three million people. Nevertheless, it has exerted a more powerful hold on international popular music than any nation besides England and America. From Prince Buster to Burning Spear,...

Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. "Burn this book after you've read it." -- Yoko "A dream you dream alone may be a...

Redemption Songs tells the extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley's greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia. It opens with Marley's live acoustic performance of Redemption Song at the end of his life, and reveals that the core lyric comes from a...

The classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death Bob Marley left an indelible mark on modern music, both as a reggae pioneer and as an enduring cultural icon. Catch a Fire, now a classic...