Time and memory in reggae music : the politics of hope /
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and the late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory hope and redemption in reggae music.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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Colección: | Music and society (Series)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Study in Elective Affinity: Music, Religion, Memory: Reggae and Rastafari: a short history; Interpreting songs: notes on methodology; A diachronic analysis of Jamaican reggae charts, 1968-2000; The construction of a musical memory
- Remembering the Past: Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations; The construction of a religious chain of memory
- Revealing the Future: Messianism, between past and future; Hope and redemption; The eschatology as future-present; The construction of a socio-political memory
- From Revelation to Revolution. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique; Only rasta can liberate the people: resistance and revolution
- Conclusion: Time and memory
- Annex 1. List of songs mentioned, by artist
- Annex 2. Albums in the corpus.