Time and memory in reggae music the politics of hope /
Daynes, Sarah.
Time and memory in reggae music the politics of hope / Sarah Daynes. - Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; (c)2010. New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : illustrations. - Music and society .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9781781702116 9781847792877
Reggae music--History and criticism.
Reggae music--Social aspects.
Time in music.
Electronic Books.
ML3532 / .T564 2010
Time and memory in reggae music the politics of hope / Sarah Daynes. - Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; (c)2010. New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : illustrations. - Music and society .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9781781702116 9781847792877
Reggae music--History and criticism.
Reggae music--Social aspects.
Time in music.
Electronic Books.
ML3532 / .T564 2010