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Reggae eBooks

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  • Calypso Drift

    by Steinberg Henry ...
    Steinberg Henry has composed for us this magical island adventure into song. It is made up of 14 segments and 119 chapters integrating leaps in consciousness, methods and disciplines with skill surprising. Calypso Drift passes by way of an island Parliament, Dread/Rastafari, memorable black-sand beaches, religious systems, the Kwyl language business, high-school learning remembrances, a touch of ... Read more

    PHP366.79

  • A Hit Mek

    Música jamaiquina: una perspectiva histórica

    by Rohan M. Budhai ...
    DESDE EL TAMBORILEO DE LOS TAÍNOS HASTA LAS PALPITANTES LÍNEAS DE BAJO DE LOS GUETOS JAMAICANOS.El libro comienza con un estudio del pueblo indígena taíno. Rastrea cómo su música fue influenciada por la cultura africana. Conceptualiza cómo la música de África y su intersección con estos primeros habitantes del Caribe se ha convertido, hasta el día de hoy, en el pilar fundamental de la música ... Read more

    PHP407.46 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reggae the Forgotten Music

    by Les Nicholls ...
    Reggae music has fans worldwide and millions of records have been sold. However, many reggae singers and musicians remain relatively unknown. Very few have achieved either the fame or financial rewards that their talent deserved. This book looks at the history of reggae and at many of the artists involved in creating this music. ... Read more

    PHP386.59

  • The Reasonings of Buju Banton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla

    Behind The Music Tales, #8

    by Harris Rosen ...
    Series Book 8 - Behind The Music Tales
    The Reasonings of Buju Banton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla is three exclusive interviews, ten exclusive photos, and 104 links to music and tales.An engaging literal account of how three prodigious talents ply and impact a nation of millions with their reactionary music.Now, in The Reasonings of Buju Banton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla, the 8th book in the series, you can get inside the minds of some of the ... Read more

    PHP407.46

  • 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

    PHP1,173.09

  • Bob Marley: The Complete Guide to his Music

    by Ian McCann, Harry Hawke ...
    The indispensable guide to the music of Bob Marley. An album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by Marley and the Wailers from the early sessions in Jamaica to the Island recordings and compilations released after Marley's death.Featuring details of Marley's recordings for Studio One, Leslie Kong, Lee Perry, Island and Tuff Gong Productions, this is the ultimate gift for ... Read more

    PHP573.59

  • Sonic Experience

    by Jean-François Augoyard ...
    While acknowledging the significant gains modernity and post-modernity offer Western civilization in the areas of liberty and knowledge Schmitz sees in their arguments a superficiality that does not "bite to the bone." In The Recovery of Wonder he proposes we approach the world as a gift in order to regain the sense of wonder Shakespeare so eloquently recognized. ... Read more

    PHP1,382.99

  • 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

    PHP174.88

  • Bob Marley and Media

    Representation and Audiences

    by Mike Hajimichael ...
    Series series Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
    Bob Marley and Media: Representation and Audiences presents an analysis of how media, radio, television and print represented Bob Marley, including his popularity after his death. Mike Hajimichael examines unexplored connections between Bob Marley and media representation and the specifics of audiences, including coverage in tabloids, music magazines, and fanzines, as well as radio and television ... Read more

    PHP2,066.79

  • 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

    PHP1,634.79

  • Not For You. Pearl Jam, vivir en presente

    by Ronen Givony ...
    Translated by Manuel de la Fuente Soler ...
    Series series Libros Singulares (LS)
    Not For You. Pearl Jam, vivir en presente es la primera biografía completa de una de las bandas más importantes de las últimas décadas, surgida en Seatle en los años 90. Polémica y divertida al mismo tiempo, Not for You explora los orígenes y la evolución de Perl Jam a lo largo de treinta años, desde su fundación (Ten), en plena irrupción del grunge, en 1991; a través de su época dorada (Vs., ... Read more

    PHP442.59

  • 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

    PHP757.22

  • Bob Marley: Visual Music

    by David Brooks ...
    As a young photography student in 1980, David Jamaica Brooks struck gold and was personally invited to tour the US with Bob Marley and the Wailers.Marley had to cut the tour short, due to illness, and, tragically, the performances were his last.This is the amazing story of how a student found himself on tour with Bob Marley and the Wailers and the memorable road trip, alongside David Brooks iconic ... Read more

    PHP582.34 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

    PHP771.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Babylon East

    Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan

    by Marvin Sterling ...
    An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international dancehall community by winning the event. In 2002, the Japanese dancer Junko Kudo became the ... Read more

    PHP1,466.89

  • Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

    by Stephen A. King ...
    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

    PHP1,049.29

  • 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

    PHP573.19

  • The Future Is the Beginning

    The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley

    by Bob Marley ...
    In this one-of-a-kind collection, edited by Gerald Hausman and with an introduction by Cedella Marley, the words of reggae legend Bob Marley are gathered together to give readers a sense of his deeply felt and powerfully motivated sense of spirit. The texts, many unpublished in book form, were gathered at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica, where Bob lived and worked in the 1970s.Bob Marley's wisdom ... Read more

    PHP738.29

  • 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

    PHP3,604.49

  • 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

    PHP233.17

  • Tanto que contar

    Historia oral de Bob Marley

    by Roger Steffens ...
    Translated by Ezequiel Martínez l ...
    Series series Cultura popular
    La mejor y más completa biografía de Bob Marley. Un libro que no elude ninguna controversia y nos ofrece todos los aspectos de su vida.Una historia reveladora y devastadora de uno de los músicos más influyentes de todos los tiempos, contada en las palabras de quienes mejor lo conocieron. Roger Steffens es uno de los principales expertos de Bob Marley en el mundo. Durante varias décadas, ha ... Read more

    PHP839.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Rock Met Reggae

    How the Cultural Crossover of Bob Marley, The Clash, The Specials and More Changed the Face of Rock Music

    by Steven Blush ...
    In When Rock Met Reggae**, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this "illuminating chronicle" (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music.** Library Journal notes that "Blush’s nimble outline of the interplay between reggae and British punk will appeal to music fans.”Brin... ... Read more

    PHP1,454.69

  • The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music

    Edited by Nanette de Jong ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The diverse musics of the Caribbean form a vital part of the identity of individual island nations and their diasporic communities. At the same time, they witness to collective continuities and the interrelatedness that underlies the region's multi-layered complexity. This Companion introduces familiar and less familiar music practices from different nations, from reggae, calypso and salsa to ... Read more

    PHP1,672.99

  • Untersuchungen zum Sprachgebrauch im Dancehall

    auf Martinique, Guadeloupe und im frankokreolophonen Sprachraum

    by Sabine Kirchleitner ...
    Series Book 11 - Wissenschaftliche E-Book-Reihe
    Vor dem Hintergrund der Kolonialgeschichte hat sich Dancehall als eigenständiges musikalisches Genre mit charakteristischen Sprachformen entwickelt. Die hier vorgefundenen Kreolsprachen und deren Besonderheiten erhalten als Forschungsgegenstand verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit. Die Arbeit bietet neben einem umfassenden Einblick in die historische und soziale Entwicklung dieses weltweit populären ... Read more

    PHP625.00