Reggae Bloodlines

by Davis, Stephen; Simon, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780306804960
• ISBN10: 0306804964
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-08-21
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

Reggaevulcanizing, restrained, irresistibleis more than the national music of Jamaica: It is a social force that fills the complete cultural needs of the people it serves. Everyone in Jamaica, from the prime minister in his gardens to the Rastafarian elders in Trench Town, listens to the latest reggae songs for an immediate line on the political and spiritual pulse of the island.Reggae Bloodlines,originally published in 1977 and here updated with a new afterword, was the first book to tell the story of the music of the Jamaican people and their spiritual nationality, the Brotherhood of Rastafari. It includes interviews with reggae's master musiciansBob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Toots Hibbert, Big Youth, Peter Tosh, Agugstus Pablo, Max Romeoand Prime Minister Michael Manley; reportage on Jamaican politics; and it sorties into the nation's lush interior in search of the ganja fields of Kali Mountain and the legendary Maroon enclaves, still inhabited by the descendants of slave warriors.Reggae Bloodlinesis not an encyclopedia of Jamaican style, nor a critical appraisal of its musicit is a definitive portrait of a struggling nation and its musical heritage at the crucial turning point of decolonization. Packed with hundreds of astonishing photographs,Reggae Bloodlinescaptures the restless rhythm of reggae culture like no book before or since.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Reggae Bloodlines	p. 9
A Visit with the Black Prince of Reggae	p. 23
Burning Spear at Chela Bay	p. 49
The Brotherhood of Rastafari	p. 63
Three Reggae Masters	p. 83
The Rockers Meet Dub Reggae Uptown	p. 99
The Third World Nashville	p. 111
Some Blackheart Men	p. 125
The Sons of Negus Live in Shantytown	p. 141
I and Eye	p. 149
Joshua and the Rod of Correction	p. 167
A Visit to Kali Mountain	p. 179
Maroon Country	p. 191
Labberish	p. 203
Postscript: Heavy Manners	p. 208
Afterword	p. 210
Epilogue	p. 214
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