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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; (c)2010.; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781781702116
  • 9781847792877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML3532 .T564 2010
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Contents:
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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction ML3532 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn808598580

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.

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