عنوان

Time and memory in reggae music :

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(hbk.)

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(hbk.)

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0719076218

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9780719076213

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Title Proper

Time and memory in reggae music :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the politics of hope /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sarah Daynes

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 296 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Music and society

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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 -- Appendices. List of songs mentioned, by artist ; Albums in the corpus

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Text of Note

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

Reggae music-- History and criticism

Reggae music-- Social aspects

Time in music

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Book number

Daynes, Sarah

Date of Transaction

20110426082737.0

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[Book]

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