Kenneth Bilby

Words of Our Mouth, Meditations of Our Heart

Pioneering Musicians of Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, and Dancehall

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Produktbeschreibung

Celebrating the legendary studio musicians of Jamaican popular music through personal photographs and interviews

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9780819575883
• ISBN-10: 0819575887
• Artikelnr.: 43922434

Autorenporträt

KENNETH BILBY is an ethnomusicologist, writer, and lifelong student of Jamaican music. He is the former director of research at the Center for Black Research at Columbia College Chicago and currently a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. Author of True-Born Maroons and coauthor of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae, his collection of field recordings of Jamaican traditional music is one of the largest in the world.