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  • Bob Marley

    The Untold Story

    par Chris Salewicz ...
    What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock’n’roll?How is that he has not only remained the single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generation after generation of fans across the globe?On May 11, 1981, a little after 11.30 in the morning, Bob Marley died. The man who introduced reggae to a ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.24

  • Fire Rush

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt’s time to dance, to love, to be free…‘Mesmerising’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other‘Fabulous’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet‘Beautiful’</strong... ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.00

  • So Much Things to Say

    The Oral History of Bob Marley

    par Roger Steffens ...
    “Reggae’s chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on reggae’s chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire.” —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning authorRenowned 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.07

  • No Woman No Cry

    My Life with Bob Marley

    A revealing memoir of Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley from the woman who knew him better than anyone—his wife.Rita Marley met Bob Marley in a recording studio in Trench Town, Jamaica when she was eighteen. A year later, they were married. The two of them set the world on fire. But life with Bob was not easy.Written with author Hettie Jones, No Woman No Cry is an honest account of Bob and Rita’s ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.00

  • Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story

    Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

    par Daniel Rachel ...
    #2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born.2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social issues, racism, class and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.95

  • Sufferah

    Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

    par Alex Wheatle ...
    "One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly gifted storyteller, and the way he details his own story here is no exception" JEFFREY BOAKYEIn this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation through a childhood ma... ... En savoir plus

    CHF 3.95

  • Bass Culture

    When Reggae Was King

    par Lloyd Bradley ...
    The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 14.00

  • The Islander

    My Life in Music and Beyond

    An Uncut Magazine Book of the YearA Telegraph Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the Year'An adventurer, an entrepreneur, a buccaneer, a visionary' - BONOAs the founder of Island Records, renowned music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most legendary artists of the second half of the twentieth century - from Steve Winwood to Cat Stevens, Bob Marley to ... ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.84

  • Pressure Drop

    Reggae in the Seventies

    par John Masouri ...
    The music that developed as rocksteady and early reggae gave birth to deejays, dub, rockers, lovers rock, early dancehall and 2 Tone was by turns brutal and revelatory. Including an extensive analysis of the decade’s major singles and albums, Pressure Drop includes eyewitness accounts and experiences of the decade from the likes of Burning Spear, Chris Blackwell, Gregory Isaacs, Bunny Wailer, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.35

  • Buyers Beware

    Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture

    Collection series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from “less respectable” segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop ... En savoir plus

    CHF 23.79

  • King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land

    The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae

    par Jason Wilson ...
    When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one Canada’s most vibrant music scenes.In King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land, professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the story of how the organic, transnational nature of reggae brought black and white youth together, opening ... En savoir plus

    CHF 18.05

  • A Hit Mek

    La Musique Jamaïcaine: Une Perspective Historique

    par Rohan M. Budhai ...
    DES PERCUSSIONS DES TAÏNOS AUX LIGNES DE BASSE PALPITANTES DES GHETTOS JAMAÏCAINS.L'ouvrage débute par une étude du peuple autochtone Taïno. Il retrace la manière dont sa musique a été influencée par la culture africaine. Il conceptualise comment la musique d'Afrique et son croisement avec ces premiers habitants des Caraïbes sont devenus, à ce jour, le pilier fondamental de la musique jamaïcaine.A ... En savoir plus

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  • Young, Gifted & Black: The Story of Trojan Records

    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 backs of vans, the company spearheaded the injection of reggae and ska into the vein of British youth consciousness.In its first brief six-year incarnation, Trojan produced nearly 30 hit singles, created ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.40

  • Bass Culture

    La musica dalla Giamaica: ska, rock steady, roots reggae, dub e dancehall

    par Lloyd Bradley ...
    Bass Culture è la storia del Reggae, dalle sue origini e dai sound System degli anni cinquanta, fino al suo straordinario trionfo degli anni settanta e all’attuale generazione di artisti che stanno cercando di trovare nuove strade musicali. La vicenda spazia dai ghetti di Kingston alle amene colline dell’entroterra giamaicano, fino ai club e ai negozi di dischi di Londra e Birmingham. Lloyd ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.00

  • Ska

    The Rhythm of Liberation

    Collection series Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture
    Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial origins to the shores of England and back across the Atlantic to the United States. Without ska music, there would be no reggae or Bob Marley, no British punk and pop blends, no American soundtrack to its various subcultures.In Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 48.31

  • Bob Marley: A Life from Beginning to End

    Biographies of Musicians

    par Hourly History ...
    Collection series Biographies of Musicians
    Bob Marley, the most prominent reggae musician of all time, was truly an icon. He lived a life about as full as his 36 years on this earth would allow. By the time he was 16, he was in the studio making records, and although superstardom didn't come to him immediately, Marley never ceased his pursuit of it. He also never ceased in his pursuit of wisdom and spiritual wellbeing. In later life, ... En savoir plus

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  • Bass Culture

    La historia del reggae

    Traduit par Tomás Cobos ...
    Collection Livre 5 - Acuarela/Recorridos
    Este libro es un viaje. A los guetos de Jamaica, en el corazón del Caribe, pero también al eco hipnótico de los tambores y los graves primigenios del África profunda. En "Bass Culture: La historia del reggae", Lloyd Bradley cuenta la apasionante historia de la música jamaicana en su contexto social, político, económico y espiritual, desde los sound systems de los años cincuenta, pasando por el ska ... En savoir plus

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  • The Power Of The Word: Jamaican Deejays in the 1970s

    par Eric Doumerc ...
    A tribute to the Jamaican deejays who started the jiving or toasting tradition in the 1950s and 1960s and then refined it in the 1970s when it reached its golden age. Some of these deejays like U-Roy, I-Roy, and Dillinger had international careers and became quite popular in Europe in the mid-1970s. Others had to be contented with local careers and were less successful as recording artists. But ... En savoir plus

    CHF 3.50 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Global Reggae

    par Carolyn Cooper ...
    This collection of illuminating essays highlight the "globalization" of reggae - its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of consumption and transformation. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.20

  • And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

    A Journey through Global Music

    par Joe Boyd ...
    Collection Livre 6 - ZE Series
    “The War and Peace of world music.” —Jim Irvin, MojoWinner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Award. From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd, and author of White Bicycles, comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.When Paul Simon first ... En savoir plus

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  • Naissance et Renaissances

    par Brother Jimmy ...
    De la cité Miquel au camp de Canjuers, jusqu'aux ghettos de Paris, Brother Jimmy, figure majeure du militantisme culturel, a côtoyé depuis les marges un mouvement de revendications et de liberté : le reggae. Dans son autobiographie, l'auteur retrace l'ensemble de son parcours, de son enfance jusqu'à l'âge adulte, en une traversée épineuse au cœur de ses maisons sans racines, les sound system, ces ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music

    par Ifeona Fulani ...
    This book speaks to the remarkable global reach and influence of Caribbean musics and investigates Caribbean women, music and identity. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.20

  • Born a Sufferah

    Dancehall Music's Insurgent Soundscapes

    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 Reggae-largely Rastafari's critique of the West as being of a Biblical Babylon. Both strains grappled with ... En savoir plus

    CHF 25.64

  • Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

    Who changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into "Come to Jamaica and feel all right"?When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for American tourists?Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 27.49