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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daynes, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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.