Time and memory in reggae music : the politics of hope / Sarah Daynes.

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Daynes, Sarah

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TextSeries: Music and society (Series)Publication details: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781781702116
178170211X
9781847792877
1847792871

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No title; Print version:: Time and memory in reggae music.DDC classification:

782.421646

LOC classification:

ML3532 .D42 2010eb

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Contents:

A Study in Elective Affinity: Music, Religion, Memory: Reggae and Rastafari: a short history; Interpreting songs: notes on methodology; A diachronic analysis of Jamaican reggae charts, 1968-2000; The construction of a musical memory -- Remembering the Past: Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations; The construction of a religious chain of memory -- Revealing the Future: Messianism, between past and future; Hope and redemption; The eschatology as future-present; The construction of a socio-political memory -- From Revelation to Revolution. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique; Only rasta can liberate the people: resistance and revolution -- Conclusion: Time and memory -- Annex 1. List of songs mentioned, by artist -- Annex 2. Albums in the corpus.

Summary: On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and the late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory hope and redemption in reggae music.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and the late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory hope and redemption in reggae music.

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