Sarah Daynes

Time and memory in reggae music (eBook, ePUB)

The politics of hope

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music constructs a musical, religious and socio-political memory in rupture with dominant models is vividly illustrated by the lyrics themselves. How is the past remembered in the present? How does remembering the past allow for imagining the future? How does collective memory participate in the historical grounding of collective identity? What is the relationship between tradition and revolution, between the recollection of the past and the imagination of the future, between passivity and action? Ultimately, this case study of 'memory at work' opens up a theoretical problem: the conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796929
• Artikelnr.: 57471683

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