Sarah Daynes

Time and memory in reggae music

The politics of hope

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Produktbeschreibung

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Music and Society
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781784992804
• ISBN-10: 1784992801
• Artikelnr.: 42794514

Autorenporträt

Sarah Daynes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: A study in elective affinity: music, religion and
memory 1. Reggae and Rastafari: a history 2. Interpreting songs: notes on
methodology 3. Analysis of reggae charts, 1968-2000 4. The construction of
a musical memory in reggae music Part II: Remembering the past 5. Slavery
and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations 6. The construction of
a religious chain of memory Part III: Revealing the future 7. Messianism,
between past and future 8. Hope and redemption 9. The end of the world as
future-present Part IV: From revelation to revolution 10. The construction
of a sociopolitical memory of liberation 11. Rhetoric of oppression and
social critique 12. Resistance and revolution Part V: Conclusion 13. Time
and memory Index