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" Time and memory in reggae music : "
Sarah Daynes
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BL
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632817
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Daynes, Sarah
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Time and memory in reggae music : : the politics of hope /\ Sarah Daynes
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| Publication Statement
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Manchester ;New York :: Manchester University Press ;New York :: Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010
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| Series Statement
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Music and society
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xii, 296 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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9780719076213
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: 0719076218
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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 -- Appendices. List of songs mentioned, by artist ; Albums in the corpus
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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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Reggae music-- History and criticism
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Reggae music-- Social aspects
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Time in music
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ML3532.D42 2010
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