Reggae Music

Reggae - Jamaican popular music that developed in the 1960s among Kingston's poor blacks, drawing on American "soul" music and traditional African and Jamaican folk music and ska (a Jamaican and British dance-hall music). Many of its highly political songs proclaim the tenets of the Rastafarian religious movement. Instrumentation usually includes an ensemble of organ, piano, drums Read More...

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Reggae, Rastafari and the Rhetoric of Social Control
by Barry T. Bays III, P. Renee Foster, Stephen A. King. 173 pgs.

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Stephen A. King is associate professor of speech communication at Delta State University.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: (1959–1971)

Chapter One: Ska and the Roots of Rastafarian Musical Protest

Chapter Two: Rocksteady, the Rude Boy, and the Political Awakening of Rastafari

Chapter Three: Early Reggae, Black Power, and the Politicization of Rastafari

Chapter Four: The Rhetoric of Social Control Strategies

Part Two: (1972–1980)

Chapter Five: Popularization and Polarization of Rastafarii

Chapter Six: Michael Manley and the People's National Party's Co-Optation of the Rastafari and Reggae

Epilogue

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Cut 'n' Mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music (Chap. Four "Reggae and Other Caribbean Music")
by Dick Hebdige. 180 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Pre-Mix: Version to Version

Chapter One: Slavery Days

Chapter Two: West African Roots, West Indian Flowers

Chapter Three: The Music of Trinidad

Chapter Four: Reggae and Other Caribbean Music

Chapter Five: The Roots of Reggae: Religion and Religious Music

Chapter Six: The Rastafarians

Chapter Seven: The Roots of Reggae: Black American Music

Chapter Eight: Rocksteady and the Rude Boy Era

Chapter Nine: Reggae

Chapter Ten: Dub and Talk Over

Chapter Eleven: Dread in a Inglan

Dub Version (1982) (The Rise and Fall of Two Tone)

Club Mix (1986) (Breaking for the Border)

Chapter Fourteen: Slack Style and Seaga

Chapter Fifteen: Lovers' Rock: Reggae, Soul and Broken Hearts

Chapter Sixteen: Rap and Hip Hop: the New York Connection

Chapter Seventeen: Fast-Style Reggae: Designer Label Roots

Notes and References

General Index

Index of Musicians, Singers, Disc Jockeys, Record Producers and Sound System Operators

Index to Song and Record Titles
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The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago (Chap. Six "The Steelband: Cultural Creativity and the Construction of Identities")
by Stephen Stuempfle. 287 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: Festive and Musical Traditions In Trinidad

Chapter 2: The Emergence of the Steelband: The 1930s and 1940s

Chapter Three: The Institutionalization of The Steelband: the 1940s and 1950s

Chapter Five: The Steelband Movement In Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago

Chapter Six: The Steelband: Cultural Creativity And the Construction of Identities

Suggested Listening

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Auditory Culture Reader (Chap. 27 "Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session")
by Michael Bull, Les Back. 510 pgs.

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Sight and sound are equally crucial to our understanding of the world, yet the visual has dominated discussions of cultural experience. The very way we relate to, and think about, our everyday world has been influenced by this emphasis on sight over sound. Providing a definitive overview of an emerging field, this pioneering reader is the first to redress a glaring imbalance by investigating how auditory culture subtly and profoundly impacts on our everyday lives.From the evocative tolling of village bells to the grating rattle of exhaust pipes, what we hear influences how we feel and what we do. As technology advances, the world has become an increasingly noisy, confusing and disturbing place. The recent addition of mobile phones alone has irrevocably changed our auditory experiences. In order to retreat from jarring sounds, we seek new sounds sounds that calm, block, soothe. Beginning with the role of sound in historical and social thought, The Auditory Culture Reader moves on to consider city noise, music, voices, and new technologies and medias of sound. It explores, for example, the sectarian sounds of North Belfast, sounds of the powwow amongst Native Americans, football chants, recorded sermons, and the power and influence of the DJs voice.Filling a significant gap, this groundbreaking and multidisciplinary reader combines classic texts, interviews and original contributions by leading social and cultural theorists. It represents a landmark statement on a surprisingly overlooked aspect of our everyday experience.

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Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Into Sound

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Part I: Thinking about Sound

1: Open Ears

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2: Hearing Loss

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3: Auditory Imagination

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4: The Help of Your Good Hands Reports on Clapping

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5: The Sound of Music

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6: Songtime Sound Culture, Rhythm and Sociality

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Part II: Histories of Sound

7: The Auditory Markers of the Village

Notes

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8: Tuning into London C. 1600

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9: Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America

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10: The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European and North American Noise Abatement Campaigns, 1900–40

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11: Medicine's Acoustic Culture Mediate Auscultation, the Stethoscope and the ‘autopsy of the Living’

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Part III: Anthropologies of Sound

12: A Rainforest Acoustemology

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13: Performing Patriotism in Native North America Ojibwa Powwow-Sounds and the Paradoxes of Identity

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14: Sectarian Sound and Cultural Identity in Northern Ireland

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15: Nostalgia and Radio Sound

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Part IV: Sounds in the City

16: Aural Postcards Sound, Memory and the City

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17: Sounds in the Crowd

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18: The Sonic Composition of the City

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19: How Many Movements?

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20: Soundscapes of the Car a Critical Study of Automobile Habitation

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Part V: Living and Thinking with Music

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21: Between the Blues and the Blues Dance Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic

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22: Diasporic Sounds Dis/located Sounds

23: The Sounds of Alterity

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24: Calypso Kings

25: Bessie Smith ‘thinking Blues’

Notes

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26: ‘chatting’ for Change! Interview with William (lez) Henry

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27: Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session

Notes

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28: Resistance

Afterword

The Indefensible Ear: A History

Index
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Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements ("The Stage Is the Shantytown: Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae" begins on p. 237)
by Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, Arturo Escobar. 459 pgs.

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Investigating the complex interrelations between culture & politics in a wide range of social movements in Latin America, this book focuses on the cultural politics enacted by social movements as they struggle for new visions & practices of citizenship, democracy, social relations, & development. The volume explores the potential of these cultural politics for fostering alternative political cultures & social transformations. Theoretical & empirical chapters assess & build upon novel conceptions of culture & politics in a variety of disciplines & fields-particularly anthropology, political science, sociology, feminist theory, & cultural studies.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements

Notes

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Part One: The Cultural Politics of Citizenship, Democracy, and the State

Chapter Two: Culture, Citizenship, and Democracy: Changing Discourses and Practices of the Latin American Left

Notes

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Chapter Three: Social Rights: Conflicts and Negotiations in Contemporary Brazil

Notes

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Chapter Four: New Subjects of Rights? Women's Movements and the Construction of Citizenship in the "New Democracies"

Notes

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Chapter Five: The Explosion of Experience: The Emergence of a New Ethical-Political Principle in Popular Movements in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Part Two: The Cultural Politics Of Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

Chapter Six: "Ambiguity and Contradiction in a Radical Popular Movement

Notes

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Chapter Seven: Indigenous Movements as a Challenge to the Unified Social Movement Paradigm for Guatemala

Notes

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Chapter Eight: The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia

Notes

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Chapter Nine: Black Movements and the "Politics of Identity" in Brazil

Notes

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Chapter Ten: Beyond the Domestic and the Public: Colonas Participation in Urban Movements in Mexico City

Notes

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Chapter Eleven: Defrocking the Vatican: Feminism's Secular Project

Notes

Part Three: Globalization, Transnationalism, and Civil Society

Chapter Twelve: Latin American Feminisms "Go Global": Trends of the 1990s and Challenges for the New Millennium

Notes

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Chapter Thirteen: Cybercultural Politics: Political Activism at a Distance in a Transnational World

Notes

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Chapter Fourteen: The Globalization of Culture and the New Civil Society

Notes

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Chapter Fifteen: Rethinking the Spatialities of Social Movements: Questions of (B)orders, Culture, and Politics in Global Times

Notes

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Part Four: Theoretical and Methodological Rflections on the Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements

Chapter Sixteen: Toward a Culture of Participation and Citizenship: Challenges for a More Equitable World

Notes

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Chapter Seventeen: Final Comments: Challenges to Cultural Studies in Latin America

Notes

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Chapter Eighteen: Third World or Planetary Conflicts?

Chapter Nineteen: Where To? What Next?

Notes

About the Editors and Contributors

Index
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The "Zinc-Fence Thing": When Will Reggae Album Covers Be Allowed out of the Ghetto?, in Black Music Research Journal
by Hasse Huss. 14 pgs.

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Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion (Chap. 18 "Transnational Popular Culture and the Global Spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement")
by Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau. 418 pgs.

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In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and illustrated.

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Preface

Introduction

References

Part One Colonialism and Postcolonial Legacies

1: Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions

Conclusion

2: From Tupã to the Land Without Evil: The Christianization of Tupi-Guarani Cosmology

References

3: Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past

Conclusion

Notes

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4: Reflections on Christianity in China

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Part Two Gender and Sexuality

References

Menstruation and Reproduction: An Oglala Case

Conclusion

6: The Domestication of Religion: The Spiritual Guardianship of Elderly Jewish Women

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7: Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses

Conclusion

Notes

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8: Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond

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Part Three The Healing Touch and Altered States

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9: Exorcists, Psychiatrists, and the Problems of Possession in Northwest Madagascar

Introduction

Conclusion

Notes

10: The Woman Who Wanted To Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community

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11: Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums

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12: Zar as Modernization in Contemporary Sudan

Conclusion

Notes

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Part Four Religion and the State

13: Pockets Full of Mistakes: The Personal Consequences of Religious Change in a Toraja Village

14: Bandits, Beggars, and Ghosts: The Failure of State Control over Religious Interpretation in Taiwan

Conclusion

Notes

References

15: Muslim Identity and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey: "The Headscarf Dispute"

References

16: The Interpretation of Politics A Hopi Conundrum

Conclusion

Notes

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Part Five Changes and Continuities

References

17: Cargoism in Irian Jaya Today

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18: Transnational Popular Culture and the Global Spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement

Conclusion

Introduction

References

19: On Founders and Followers Some Factors in the Development of New Religious Movements

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20: Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion

Conclusion

Notes

References

Suggested Additional Readings

Credits

Index
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Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity, and Place ("Reggae: Innertainment and Outernational" begins on p. 174)
by John Connell, Chris Gibson. 324 pgs.

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'Sound Tracks' traces the relationships between music, space and identity, from inner city scenes to the music of nations, to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music which also examines the influences of culture, economics and technology.

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

1: Into the Music

2: Music and Place

3: Music and Movement

4: The Place of Lyrics

5: Sounds and Scenes

6: Music Communities

7: New Worlds

8: A World of Flows

9: Aural Architecture

10: Marketing Place

11: Terra Digitalia?

12: The Long and Winding Road…

Bibliography

Index
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Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture ("Reggae" begins on p. 261)
by Alison Donnell. 356 pgs.

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The Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture is the first comprehensive reference book to provide multidisciplinary coverage of the field of black cultural production in Britain. The publication is of particular value because despite attracting growing academic interest in recent years, this field is still often subject to critical and institutional neglect. For the purpose of the Companion , the term 'black' is used to signify African, Caribbean and South Asian ethnicities, while at the same time addressing the debates concerning notions of black Britishness and cultural identity.This single volume Companion covers seven intersecting areas of black British cultural production since 1970: writing, music, visual and plastic arts, performance works, film and cinema, fashion and design, and intellectual life. With entries on distinguished practitioners, key intellectuals, seminal organizations and concepts, as well as popular cultural forms and local activities, the Companion is packed with information and suggestions for further reading, as well as offering a wide lens on the events and issues that have shaped the cultural interactions and productions of black Britain over the last thirty years. With a range of specialist advisors and contributors, this work promises to be an invaluable sourcebook for students, researchers and academics interested in exploring the diverse, complex and exciting field of black cultural forms in postcolonial Britain.

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