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Author:Michael de Koeningh
Young, Gifted and Black
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...- $12.99
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Author:Daniel Rachel
Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records Author: Daniel RachelISBN-10: 1636141897ISBN-13: 9781636141893Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 496Format: Hardcover- $32.95
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Author:Bruce W. Talamon
Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer
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...- $13.00
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Author:Roger Steffens
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Author: Roger SteffensISBN-10: 1665144041ISBN-13: 9781665144049Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2017Format: CD- $34.99
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Author:'H' Patten
Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance: Spirit Bodies Moving
This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression.This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It...- $52.95
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Author:Hartley Hines
Lovers Rock: Let The Music Play
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,...- $10.50
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Author:Debby Wallace
Home Of The Blues: A History Of The Double Door Inn
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...- $20.00
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Author:Lee Scratch Perry
Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
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...- $75.00
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Author:Bobby Dean Hackney
Vermont Reggae Fest the Power of Music: The First Five Years in Burlington Vermont
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...- $45.00
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Author:Pat
Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey
"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...- $29.95
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Author:Harris Rosen
The Reasonings of Buju Banton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla
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...- $19.99
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Author:Daryl Kellie
The Reggae & Ska Guitar Book: Learn Authentic Rhythm & Lead Guitar Parts for Reggae, Ska, Rocksteady, Dub & More
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...- $19.99
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Author:Heather Dennis
Life Beyond Reggae Music: The Artists We Love & Want to Know
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:...- $19.99
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Author:Dave Thompson
Reggae & Caribbean Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
More than a listener's guide, this book reveals the rich historical development of a regional music that is now embraced worldwide. Packed with incisive essays, ratings and reviews of 2 700 recordings, plus fantastic photos and engaging biographies, this guide captures the allure of...- $24.99
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Author:Donna P. Hope
Reggaestories: Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies
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...- $45.00
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Author:Anand Prahlad
Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music
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...- $35.00
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Author:Stuart Baker
Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
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...- $49.95
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Author:Reggae Vibes Productions
Reggae Got Soul: Jamaican Covers and Their Originals - From the '60s into the '80s.
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...- $15.99
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Author:Marvin D. Sterling
Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan
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...- $27.95
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Author:Carolyn Cooper
Global Reggae
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"...- $40.00
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Author:Ifeona Fulani
Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music
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- $43.00
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Author:Copeland Forbes
Reggae My Life Is
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...- $30.00
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Author:Martin Andersen
Bob Marley: The Illustrated Biography
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...- $18.95
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Author:Glen Dacosta
This Is Reggae: My Life in Jamaican Music, from Zap POW to Bob Marley and the Wailers
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...- $29.95
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Author:Bob Marley
Bob Marley [With CD (Audio)]
(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...- $14.99
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Author:Lee Jaffe
One Love: Life with Bob Marley & the Wailers
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...- $40.00
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Author:Jean-François Augoyard
Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds
In a multidisciplinary work spanning musicology, electro-acoustic composition, architecture, urban studies, communication, phenomenology, social theory, physics, and psychology, Jean-François 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...- $34.95
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Author:Bob Marley
Bob Marley [With CD (Audio)]
(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...- $19.99
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Author:Alex Wheatle
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse, imprisonment, and police brutality"Alex Wheatle's Sufferah is a moving account of one writer's indomitable will to overcome the odds stacked against him. A...- $26.95
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Author:Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Reggae Pilgrimages: Festivals and the Movement of Jah People
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...- $37.95
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Author:Mike Hajimichael
Bob Marley and Media: Representation and Audiences
Bob Marley and Media: Representation and Audiences presents an analysis of how media, radio, television and print represented Bob Marley, including his popularity after his death. Mike Hajimichael examines unexplored connections between Bob Marley and media representation and the specifics of audiences, including coverage...- $90.00
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Author:Chris Blackwell
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond
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...- $19.99
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Author:Tina K. Ramnarine
Beautiful Cosmos: Performance And Belonging In The Caribbean Diaspora
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...- $37.00
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Author:Garry Bushell
79 the Mod Revival Time for Action: Essays from the Frontline
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...- $18.00
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Author:Lloyd Bradley
This is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music
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,...- $17.00
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Author:Yoko Ono
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono
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...- $22.00
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Author:Jon Tattrie
Redemption Songs: How Bob Marley's Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism
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...- $21.95
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Author:Timothy White
Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
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...- $23.99
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Author:Ted Bafaloukos
Rockers: The Making of Reggae's Most Iconic Film
An incredible reggae backstory; illustrated by spectacular unseen images. - MOJO Magazine Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, the film Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. Rockers' director, Ted Bafaloukos has received many accolades for his work...- $65.00
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Author:Al Fingers
Clarks in Jamaica
In Jamaica, Clarks are loved like no other brand. They are the island's ruling name in footwear -- the "champion shoes" -- and it has been that way for as long as anybody can remember. This book celebrates the rich history of Clarks in...- $59.99
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Author:Cedella Marley Booker
Bob Marley, My Son
In this revealing and poignant account of the life of her son, reggae icon Bob Marley (1945-1980), Mother Cedella Marley Booker traces the unique history of Bob Marley and his contribution to popular music as only a parent could. Booker recalls her poor rural...- $16.95
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Author:Eric Abbey
Distillation of Sound
Distillation of Sound focuses on the original music of Jamaica and how, through dub reggae, Jamaican culture was expanded and shifted. It will further the discussion on dub music, its importance to Jamaican culture, and its influence on the rest of the world.Dub music...- $29.00
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Author:Michael Veal
Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
The first inside story of this Jamaican reggae styleWinner of the ARSC's Award for Best Research (History) in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music (2008)When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne King Tubby Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee Scratch Perry began crafting dub music in the early...- $28.95
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Author:Rosetta Perry
The Journey: The Inspiration and Message Behind the Music
The book, "The Journey," is titled after my first CD project. It is all about the process I went through from beginning to end to record my first CD. The Inspiration and message behind the music tell the story of why I wrote each...- $14.99
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Author:Rita Marley
No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley
The story of Rita Marley's life as the girlfriend, wife, and eventual widow of Bob Marley, the legend of reggae music, whose distinctive sound has been part of the world's popular culture for more than three decades.Author: Rita MarleyISBN-10: 0786887559ISBN-13: 9780786887552Publisher: Hyperion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $15.99
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Author:Roger Steffens
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens's riveting oral history of Bob Marley's life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants--many speaking publicly for the first time. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "crucial voice"...- $17.95
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Author:Howie Abrams
Finding Joseph I: An Oral History of H.R. from Bad Brains
A thoroughly uncensored rollercoaster ride through the riotous, tumultuous and utterly singular life and career of one of rock's most enigmatic singers--now updated with new material and a new foreword by Randall J. Blythe of Lamb of God. A Rough Trade Book of the...- $16.00
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Author:Kwame Dawes
Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius
This in-depth analysis of the reggae superstar's poetry in lyric form delves into the songwriter's intellect and spirituality with scholarly precision usually more associated with Bob Dylan or John Lennon. Thought of as the folk poet of the developing world, Marley influenced generations of...- $24.95
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Author:Mick O'Shea
Pocket Guide to Punk
The punk movement created a revolution in the music industry with its anarchic approach and DIY ethos. It was the antidote to a bloated record business that had become moribund and prog bands which had become hugely self-indulgent. Punk grew out of the politics...- $18.00
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Author:John Masouri
Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's Wailers
The story of The Wailers is a litany of betrayal and greed that's rarely been reported elsewhere. Written in collaboration with Family Man and other surviving members, this book reveals the truth behind the Marley legacy.Author: John MasouriISBN-10: 1847727069ISBN-13: 9781847727060Publisher: Omnibus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2010Pages:...- $24.95
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