(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records —Pauline Blackstory he tells is one that shines a light on the challenges of mixing pop withBilly BraggIn 1979, 2 Tone Records exploded into the consciousnessTop of the PopsAs excitement g...Loe edasi...
This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framewo...Loe edasi...
Explore the entire, incredible journey of Bob Marley and the Wailers, and their enduring legacy, in this unique visual history. More than four decades after Marley’s death, he and his bandmates remain the most famous reggae artists of...Loe edasi...
Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. Preoccupied with his own roots, Alex grew inexorably drawn to reggae music, which became his primary solac...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political context construct social commentary, resistance and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 9781787333635)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR Its time to dance, to love, to be free Mesmerising BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Aug-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108421928)
This broad introduction to Caribbean music approaches the subject through socio-cultural themes specific to the colonial encounter – creolisation, transnationalism and identity. These thematic continuities illuminate the complexities of the regions...Loe edasi...
This broad introduction to Caribbean music approaches the subject through socio-cultural themes specific to the colonial encounter – creolisation, transnationalism and identity. These thematic continuities illuminate the complexities of the regions...Loe edasi...
From Marcus Garvey and Rastafarianism to today’s ubiquitous dancehall riddims, a comprehensive and impassioned exploration of reggae. Positive Vibrations tells of how reggae was shaped by, and in turn helped to...Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of reggae in modern Britain from the time it emerged as a cultural force in the 1970s. As basslines from Jamaica reverberated across the Atlantic, so they were received and transmitted by the UK’s Afro-Caribbean communi...Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of reggae in modern Britain from the time it emerged as a cultural force in the 1970s. As basslines from Jamaica reverberated across the Atlantic, so they were received and transmitted by the UK’s Afro-Caribbean communi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774862288)
When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one of Canada’s most vibrant music scenes. Professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wils...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774862271)
Musician and scholar Jason Wilson (University of Guelph) is winner of a Canadian Reggae Music Award. In this accessible narrative for all, he chronicles the growth of Canadian reggae subculture and how it broke down barriers between black and whi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Sep-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Ammonite Press, ISBN-13: 9781781453728)
A guide to Marleys life, work and legacy featuring irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the writer behind the words. Most people know that Bob Marley (1945&;1981) was a singer-songwriter who populariz...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Omnibus Press, ISBN-13: 9781785589249)
This is the story of one of the UK’s biggest two-tone bands, The Beat, who at the height of their fame in the early 1980s had three top-selling UK albums and epitomized the multi-racial approach to music and life in urban Britain. The stor...Loe edasi...
This book explores the significance of reggae and hip hop in Southern Italy from the beginning of the 1980s to the present. Focusing on groups and solo artists located predominantly in the Southern Italian regions of Apulia and Sardinia, it exam...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jul-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Omnibus Press, ISBN-13: 9781787601178)
Recently resurrected and now enjoying chart success in the 21st century, when it was formed Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976. The company spearheaded the injection of reggae and ska into the vein of British youth...Loe edasi...
THE BOOK THAT EVERY REGGAE FAN SHOULD READ John Masouri, EchoesRodigan can still claim a currency few presenters of his vintage can match. Perhaps its because while his wider musical and professional milieu has been in...Loe edasi...
Get Up, Stand Up! for the king of reggae music!Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Born in rural Jamaica, this musician and songwriter began his career wit...Loe edasi...
(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...
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records —Pauline Blackstory he tells is one that shines a light on the challenges of mixing pop withBilly BraggIn 1979, 2 Tone Records exploded into the consciousnessTop of the PopsAs excitement g...Loe edasi...
This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framewo...Loe edasi...
Explore the entire, incredible journey of Bob Marley and the Wailers, and their enduring legacy, in this unique visual history. More than four decades after Marley’s death, he and his bandmates remain the most famous reggae artists of...Loe edasi...
‘This collection of timeless photographs gives us an up close inside look at this uniquely complex man and brilliant iconic artist who forever changed the world. One love…’ – Lenny Kravitz...Loe edasi...
“This memoir will go down as required reading in years to come.” – Flea Market Funk, DJ Prestige“A remarkable, and still ongoing, journey.” – The Daily Beast, Pat MeschinoVP Records co-founder, and one...Loe edasi...
For more than six decades, Reggae legend Glen daCosta has worked as a musician, songwriter and producer. As a session player, his distinctive sax sound backed many international Reggae stars at Joe Gibbs Studio and Lee Scratch Perrys Blackheart S...Loe edasi...
Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. Preoccupied with his own roots, Alex grew inexorably drawn to reggae music, which became his primary solac...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
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...
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political context construct social commentary, resistance and...Loe edasi...
Copeland Forbes is one of the most consequential figures in the history of modern Jamaican music. Through his roles as personal and tour manager for some of the most iconic personalities in music, Forbes has been a witness to and a participa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 9781787333635)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR Its time to dance, to love, to be free Mesmerising BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author o...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR Its time to dance, to love, to be free Mes...Loe edasi...
The laid-back Long Beach trio spawned an entire genrefusing reggae grooves, punk grittiness, ska energy, back-porch folk introspection, and hip-hop swagger. The band goes from playing backyard parties and selling cassettes out of the trunks of their...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Aug-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108421928)
This broad introduction to Caribbean music approaches the subject through socio-cultural themes specific to the colonial encounter – creolisation, transnationalism and identity. These thematic continuities illuminate the complexities of the regions...Loe edasi...
This broad introduction to Caribbean music approaches the subject through socio-cultural themes specific to the colonial encounter – creolisation, transnationalism and identity. These thematic continuities illuminate the complexities of the regions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2022, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster Audio, ISBN-13: 9781797143774)
In the vein of Sound Man and The Soundtrack of My Life, a lyrical, warmhearted, and inspirational memoir from the founder of Island Records about his astonishing life and career helping to bring reggae music to the world stage and wo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781982172695)
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
The founder of Island Records and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who is credited with being responsible for turning the world on to reggae music presents this lyrical, warmhearted and inspirational memoir about his extraordinary life and...Loe edasi...
