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Bob Marley

The Untold Story

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Pressure Drop

Reggae in the Seventies

by 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, ... Read more

11,44 €

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,
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Buyers Beware

Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture

by Patricia Joan Saunders ...

Series 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land

The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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A Hit Mek

La Musique Jamaïcaine: Une Perspective Historique

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Young, Gifted & Black: The Story of Trojan Records

by Michael de Koningh, Laurence Cane-Honeysett ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Fire Rush

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by Jacqueline Crooks ...

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... ... Read more

10,99 €

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...
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Bass Culture

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

by 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 ... Read more

9,99 €

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
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Ska

The Rhythm of Liberation

by Heather Augustyn ...

Series 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, ... Read more

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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,
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Bob Marley: A Life from Beginning to End

Biographies of Musicians

by Hourly History ...

Series 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, ... Read more

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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,
... Read more
Bass Culture

La historia del reggae

by Lloyd Bradley, Tomás Cobos ...

Translated by Tomás Cobos ...

Series Book 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

A Journey through Global Music

by Joe Boyd ...

Series Book 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 ... Read more

12,07 €

“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
... Read more
The Power Of The Word: Jamaican Deejays in the 1970s

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Global Reggae

by 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. ... Read more

13,45 €

This collection of illuminating essays highlight the "globalization" of reggae - its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of consumption and transformation.
... Read more
So Much Things to Say

The Oral History of Bob Marley

by 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 ... Read more

15,04 €

“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
... Read more
Rough Riding

Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society

Edited by Adwoa Ntozake Onuora, Anna Kasafi Perkins, Ajamu Nangwaya ...

Series series Sound Culture Series
Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society is a groundbreaking collection of articles that explore the contribution of the cultural worker, feminist organic intellectual, and controversial reggae and dancehall artiste Tanya Stephens. An accomplished lyricist on par with the genre’s celebrated male performers, Stephens has been producing socially conscious and ... Read more

8,89 €

Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society is a groundbreaking collection of articles that explore the contribution of the cultural worker, feminist organic intellectual, and controversial reggae and dancehall artiste Tanya Stephens. An accomplished lyricist on par with the genre’s celebrated male performers, Stephens has been producing socially conscious and
... Read more
Bob Marley. One Life

by F.T. Sandman ...

**Storia dell’uomo che ha rivoluzionato la musica ed è diventato leggendaIl suo credo, le sue convinzioni, il grande messaggio di pace e amore che ne ha fatto una delle poche autentiche leggende del ventesimo secolo.**Ma anche il lato più privato e segreto, i ricordi d’infanzia, il forte legame con la sua Giamaica, la passione per il calcio. E, naturalmente, la sua musica, colonna sonora di tante ... Read more

4,99 €

**Storia dell’uomo che ha rivoluzionato la musica ed è diventato leggendaIl suo credo, le sue convinzioni, il grande messaggio di pace e amore che ne ha fatto una delle poche autentiche leggende del ventesimo secolo.**Ma anche il lato più privato e segreto, i ricordi d’infanzia, il forte legame con la sua Giamaica, la passione per il calcio. E, naturalmente, la sua musica, colonna sonora di tante
... Read more
New Reggae

An Irresistible Look Into The World of Reggae Music, Reggae For Kids, Reggae Roots, The History of Reggae and Best Reggae

by Eldon Salomon ...

Are you a reggae music lover? Is so, you'll love this eBook on reggae for kids, reggae roots, the history of reggae, best reggae and more. ... Read more

1,85 €

Are you a reggae music lover? Is so, you'll love this eBook on reggae for kids, reggae roots, the history of reggae, best reggae and more.
... Read more
Archipelagos of Sound

Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music

Edited by Ifeona Fulani ...

This book speaks to the remarkable global reach and influence of Caribbean musics and investigates Caribbean women, music and identity. ... Read more

8,89 €

This book speaks to the remarkable global reach and influence of Caribbean musics and investigates Caribbean women, music and identity.
... Read more
Steppin' Razor: The Life of Peter Tosh

by John Masouri ...

The very first biography of Peter Tosh, rude boy, founder member of The Wailers and a compelling recording artist in his own right.Tosh was Jamaicas most controversial reggae star. A fiery advocate of Rastafari and African nationalism as well as the legalisation of marijuana, his uncompromising political stance won him a reputation as Jamaicas Malcolm X.Now revered second only to Bob Marley among ... Read more

10,80 €

The very first biography of Peter Tosh, rude boy, founder member of The Wailers and a compelling recording artist in his own right.Tosh was Jamaicas most controversial reggae star. A fiery advocate of Rastafari and African nationalism as well as the legalisation of marijuana, his uncompromising political stance won him a reputation as Jamaicas Malcolm X.Now revered second only to Bob Marley among
... Read more
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe

Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz

by Vivien Goldman ...

**'**Essential reading: the making of history as it was happening. Vivien was there' JARVIS COCKERVivien Goldman was the first, most passionate and indubitably the most elegant chronicler of reggae, funk, free jazz and Afrobeat music: a pioneering female writer who shaped the Golden Age of music journalism in her image. Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects Goldman's extraordinary output from ... Read more

9,49 €

**'**Essential reading: the making of history as it was happening. Vivien was there' JARVIS COCKERVivien Goldman was the first, most passionate and indubitably the most elegant chronicler of reggae, funk, free jazz and Afrobeat music: a pioneering female writer who shaped the Golden Age of music journalism in her image. Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects Goldman's extraordinary output from
... Read more
Wi Language an Culture: Di Heartbeat a Jamaica

Wi History an Culture, #3

by Marvin Buckley ...

Series Book 3 - Wi History an Culture
Wi Language an Culture: Di Heartbeat a Jamaica celebrates di vibrant expressions weh mek Jamaica unique an unforgettable. From di melodic rhythms of Jamaican Patois to di powerful beats of reggae an dancehall, dis book dive deep into di culture, language, an traditions dat define di soul of Jamaica.Explore di roots a di island, from di sacred land of di Tainos, di original inhabitants, to di ... Read more

17,99 €

Wi Language an Culture: Di Heartbeat a Jamaica celebrates di vibrant expressions weh mek Jamaica unique an unforgettable. From di melodic rhythms of Jamaican Patois to di powerful beats of reggae an dancehall, dis book dive deep into di culture, language, an traditions dat define di soul of Jamaica.Explore di roots a di island, from di sacred land of di Tainos, di original inhabitants, to di
... Read more
Pay for Play: An Investigation into the Payola System in Jamaica

Single Book, #1

by Shavane J. Daley ...

Series Book 1 - Single Book
This body of work explores the system of payola and the impact it has on the music and broadcast industry in Jamaica, specifically the dancehall space, radio and tv. Theories such as capitalism and the hierarchy culture, ideas such as public and private payola emerge from this work and the idea of reconstructing the music industry's structure. ... Read more

2,99 €

This body of work explores the system of payola and the impact it has on the music and broadcast industry in Jamaica, specifically the dancehall space, radio and tv. Theories such as capitalism and the hierarchy culture, ideas such as public and private payola emerge from this work and the idea of reconstructing the music industry's structure.
... Read more
The Islander

My Life in Music and Beyond

by Chris Blackwell, Paul Morley ...

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 ... ... Read more

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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 ...
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