The career of Burning Spear - the Rastafarian roots reggae singer otherwise known as Winston Rodney

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 all the deejays mentioned in this book made great records and extended the Jamaican oral traditi...

The recording biography of reggae artist Joseph Hill and his group Culture.

A journey allowing dub poets to explore the debates and controversies plaguing their art form over the years. The interviews here were conducted in Britain, Canada, Jamaica and the USA with Yasus Afari, Klyde Broox, Dreadlockalien, Mbala, Mutabaruka, Cherry Natural, Kokumo Noxid, Oku Onuora, Moqapi Selassie and Malachi D Smith. by Eric Doumerc of the University of Toulouse.

Reggae et Jamaïque, deux noms indissociables. Pourtant si nous connaissons tous Bob Marley, l’histoire de son jeune pays nous est globalement inconnue. « Bien que le nombre d’ouvrages publiés sur le reggae soit très important, il en existe peu qui abordent le reggae au travers de la tradition orale en se fondant sur une étude des paroles des chansons », nous explique l’auteur. Après une histoire détaillée de cette île qui nous paraît paradisiaque alors que beaucoup de ses habitants ont souffe...

Pendant les années 1950, de nombreux immigrés jamaïquains s'installèrent en Angleterre afin d'améliorer leurs conditions de vie et de travail, et aussi afin de donner un meilleur avenir à leurs enfants. Cette « génération Windrush » devait transformer durablement la structure démographique du pays, mais aussi sa culture populaire et musicale lorsque, avec l'arrivée des années 1960, le ska, puis le rock steady et le reggae, imprimèrent leur marque sur les goûts musicaux des jeunes Britanniques...

Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of gestation and that of rupture? A diversity of writers is examined: Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coet...