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Reggae eBooks

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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

    10,91 €

  • Elvis - Uncensored On the Record

    by Anthony Massally ...
    This is the true story of the King as told by those who lived and toured with him. This eBook features intimate interviews with the musicians who worked with Elvis, including DJ Fontana, Scotty Moore, The Jordanaires and The Stamps Quartet, shed new light on the creative process behind the hits and what went on in the studio.The true back stage story is told by Presley tour veterans such as tour ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Inglan is a bitch

    Vita e opere di Linton Kwesi Johnson

    by Mara Surace ...
    Ci sono personaggi che diventano simboli del proprio tempo e come tali sono vivisezionati e pubblicati in ogni dove con decine di volumi, documentari e film, altri invece vengono misteriosamente dimenticati. Uno di loro si chiama Linton Kwesi Johnson. Inglan is a bitch, il titolo della sua canzone più famosa, è uno dei primi libri biografici che esce in Italia sull’inventore della dub poetry e ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Words of Our Mouth, Meditations of Our Heart

    Pioneering Musicians of Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, and Dancehall

    by Kenneth Bilby ...
    Series series Music / Interview
    This is the first book devoted to the studio musicians who were central to Jamaica's popular-music explosion. With color portraits and interview excerpts, over 100 musical pioneers—such as Prince Buster, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and many of Bob Marley's early musical collaborators—provide new insights into the birth of Jamaican popular music in the recording studios of ... Read more

    15,47 €

  • Popular Guitar Styles: Reggae & Music of the Islands

    by Burkhard "Buck" Wolters ...
    Popular Guitar Styles: Reggae and Music of the Islands reflects recent popular styles and transfers them to classical or fingerstyle technique. Guitar players who want to add reggae or Island music to their solo-repertoire will find an original and unique collection of compositions which will give joy to both players and listeners. The playing-level is intermediate to advance. Left-hand ... Read more

    11,59 €

  • And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

    by Joe Boyd ...
    Series Book 6 - ZE Series
    From the legendary producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, REM, and Taj Mahal and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour of the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.When Paul Simon first heard the Zulu accordion flourish that would open his multi-platinum album Graceland, he told Joe Boyd that it seemed to ... Read more

    16,10 €

  • No Woman No Cry

    My Life with Bob Marley

    by Rita Marley, Hettie Jones ...
    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 ... Read more

    Was 8,99 € Now 7,99 €

  • Remembering Peter Tosh

    by Edited by Ceil Tulloch ...
    As one-third of the Wailers, icons of reggae music, the late Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known as Peter Tosh, continues to gain many fans all over the world. By way of his hugely successful solo career, many people knew Tosh to be a hard-hitting, unapologetic and controversial artiste, who spoke the truth in his lyrics and brought attention to the plight of the poor and downtrodden, both at ... Read more

    8,91 €

  • Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

    by Stephen A. King, Barry T. Bays III, P. Renà Foster ...
    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 ... Read more

    28,93 €

  • ReggaeStories

    Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies

    by Racquel Bernard, Robin Clarke, Christian E. López-Negrete Miranda, Klaus Näumann, Anna Kasafi Perkins ...
    ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary intellectual contributions in Jamaican reggae to trace Jamaican popular music in new geographical locales and then ... Read more

    8,47 €

  • Bob Marley: Música Visual:

    by David Brooks ...
    En 1980, cuando era un joven fotógrafo, David Brooks tuvo un golpe de suerte y fue invitado personalmente a realizar una gira en Estados Unidos con Bob Marley y The Wailers.Marley tuvo que acortar la gira, debido a su enfermedad y, trágicamente, esas actuaciones fueron las últimas. Esta es la increíble historia del viaje de carretera y de las fotos de los camerinos de la última actuación de la ... Read more

    8,91 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    3,49 €

  • 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 €

  • Dread Poetry and Freedom

    Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution

    by David Austin ...
    What is the relationship between poetry and social change?Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics ... Read more

    13,13 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Listen to Bob Marley

    The Man, the Music, the Revolution

    by Kris Greene ...
    An inspiring collection of poems, meditations, and lyrics by one of the world's most revered musical legendsBob Marley's music defined a movement and forever changed a nation. Known worldwide for their message of peace and unity, Marley's songs—from "One Love" to "Redemption Song" to "Three Little Birds"—have touched millions of lives. This collection is the best of Bob Marley presented in three ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhythms of Rebellion: A Beginner's Guide to Reggae Music

    by Freddie Caldwell ...
    Rhythms of Rebellion: A Beginner's Guide to Reggae Music offers a comprehensive exploration of the vibrant world of reggae, from its roots in Jamaica to its global influence on music, culture, and social change. Through ten chapters filled with historical insights, musical analysis, artist profiles, and cultural commentary, readers will embark on a journey through the rhythmic landscape of reggae ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • Time and memory in reggae music

    The politics of hope

    by Sarah Daynes ...
    Series series Music and Society
    On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music constructs a musical, religious and socio-political memory in rupture with dominant models is vividly illustrated by the lyrics themselves. How is the past remembered in the present? ... Read more

    18,01 €

  • 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

    8,47 €

  • Redemption songs

    La Bibbia secondo Bob Marley

    by Federico Russo ...
    Series series Maestri di frontiera
    A oltre quarant'anni dalla morte, Bob Marley continua a esercitare un notevole fascino, anche sulle nuove generazioni. Ma quanto di ciò che si associa comunemente al "personaggio Marley" corrisponde alla sua vita e alle sue idee? Spesso la sua figura è ridotta a icona del consumo di marijuana o di una qualche vaga idea di giustizia sociale e di lotta al razzismo. Raramente, per non dire mai, si ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's Wailers

    by John Masouri ...
    This full-blooded story of The Wailers puts the life, music and death of the legendary Bob Marley into a razor-sharp new perspective.The Wailers played with Marley on all of the hit singles and albums that made him a legend, yet their story since his death is a little-known saga of betrayal, greed and murder that is told here in its entirety for the first time.Written in collaboration with Aston ... Read more

    10,80 €

  • London

    Immigrant City

    by Nazneen Khan-Østrem ...
    Translated by Alison McCullough ...
    TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so much more. The book is difficult to put it down'Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York'The ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Culture Is Our Weapon

    Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro

    by Patrick Neate, Damian Platt ...
    An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with musicAt a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts, this unique book takes readers to the frontlines of a battle raging over control of the nation's poorest areas. Culture Is Our Weapon tells the ... Read more

    10,27 €

  • 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

    8,47 €

  • Cut `n' Mix

    Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music

    by Dick Hebdige ...
    Series series Comedia
    First published in 1987. This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture. ... Read more

    47,48 €