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The first Rasta : Leonard Howell and the rise of Rastafarianism /

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta?ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks?this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leona...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Hélène
Otros Autores: Davis, Stephen, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2003.
Edición:[1st English language ed.].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The footsteps of a spirit
  • The bird hunter
  • En route to New York
  • Harlem
  • Athlyi Rogers, forerunner of the Rasta movement
  • Early companions
  • The Ethiopianists
  • First sermons in St. Thomas
  • Jail house
  • The Nya-Binghis
  • The Hindu legacy
  • From one prison to another
  • Bloody '38
  • Pinnacle
  • Life in the hills
  • The first raid
  • Howell and the women
  • Ganja plantation
  • Like children of God in paradise (interview with Blade Howell)
  • A stroll in paradise
  • Howell and Bustamante
  • The 1954 raid
  • The ghettos
  • Pinnacle's last days
  • God or the devil?
  • The new culture
  • Rasta music, kumina or burru?
  • Count Ossie
  • The 1960s
  • Reggae stars
  • Twelve tribes.