(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Omnibus Press, ISBN-13: 9781917274203)
The very first and definitive biography of Peter Tosh, rude boy, founder member of the Wailers and a compelling recording artist in his own right– Tosh was Jamaica’s most controversial reggae star. For the Mystic Man, music was the m...Loe edasi...
In an alternate timeline 1984, Jamaicas crown jewel is Nu Kingstona retro futuristic metropolis where gang lords control hordes of zombie-like addicts with a drug called Slime....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: One Love Books, ISBN-13: 9780956777300)
The story of Greensleeves Records, from its origins as a mid-1970s West London record shop to its evolution into a pioneering reggae and dancehall record label. Features interviews with key figures, rare photographs and previously unseen archive mat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-2025, Calendar, Kirjastus: Seltmann Publishers GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783949070778)
This daily tear-off calendar presents 365 iconic reggae covers that reflect the diversity and spirit of reggae culture.This daily tear-off calendar presents 365 iconic reggae covers that reflect the diversity and spirit of reggae cultu...Loe edasi...
This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this c...Loe edasi...
From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399535212)
Offers a comprehensive investigation of Jamaicans’ perceptions of the use of Jamaican Creole in global reggae and dancehall music. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cultural and linguistic appropriation. It exp...Loe edasi...
This book evaluates modern Caribbean politics through the soundscapes of Reggae and Dancehall. Born to Reggae in the 1970s, Dancehall is often framed by its lyrics of hyper masculinity. This has distorted its engagement with Reggaes innate politics...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
In a mix of interviews, essays, personal stories, historical snapshots, obscure anecdotes, and think pieces, this second expanded edition dissects, analyzes and celebrates ska in exactly the way fans have been craving fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Omnibus Press, ISBN-13: 9781915841421)
Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London’s punk and reggae scenes, earning his reputati...Loe edasi...
From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controve...Loe edasi...
A follow up to When Rock Met Disco - exploring the intersection of the two genres, covering Bob Marley, The Police, The Clash, the ska revival, Don Letts introduction of reggae to punk bands, and the dub techniques on rock records originated by re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Omnibus Press, ISBN-13: 9781913172848)
A comprehensive account of reggae during its golden era, from the late sixties through the global breakthrough of Bob Marley in the seventies, and the genre’s popularity worldwide.Pressure Drop draws on original interviews wit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479827176)
This book focuses on reggae/dancehall culture and West Indian historic and contemporary migration to Costa Rica and Brooklyn. It centers an analysis of migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, affect, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity using regg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479827114)
Examines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian DiasporaIn popular media Caribbean culture has either been reduced to stereotypes of laziness, marijuana, and reggae music, or c...Loe edasi...
