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He takes my hand, pulls me to him. 'This is our dancing time.' A
debut about love, loss, freedom and dub reggae, Fire Rush is an
electrifying state-of-the-nation novel and an unforgettable
portrait of Black womanhood Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she
can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in
the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born
and raised. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her
guide - a chance to discover who she really is in the rhythms of
those smoke-filled nights. In the dance-hall darkness, dub is the
music of her soul, her friendships, her ancestry. But everything
changes when she meets Moose, the man she falls deeply in love
with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape. When
their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic
journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol - where
she is caught up in a criminal gang and the police riots sweeping
the country - and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide
with explosive consequences. 5* Reader Reviews 'I will be
recommending it to everyone' 'A phenomenal debut novel' 'Yamaye is
a fantastic central protagonist and narrator ... This novel takes
you on an emotional and unforgettable journey' 'This book has it
all ... You're immersed into something really special' 'A stunning
debut novel... as relevant to today's racial climate as the
1970s... it felt musical, with dub music almost a secondary
character in the novel'
I Ain't Mad At Ya offers a rare insight into growing up in
Birmingham's black community in the 70s and 80s and shines a light
on the incredible amount of black music culture produced in the
vibrant suburb of Handsworth and the role its musicians and
entrepreneurs have played in shaping and influencing popular music
in the UK.
I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography
from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger. As the enigmatic frontman
of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the
youthful and joyous sound of the post-punk 2 Tone movement. As well
as his illustrious career with The Beat and its subsequent
iterations, this absorbing book explores Roger's upbringing as a
child of the Windrush generation, touring America and his
outstanding collaborations with artists such as The Clash, The
Police and The Specials.
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Bob Marley, My Son
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Cedella Marley Booker; As told to Anthony C. Winkler
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In this revealing and poignant account of the life of her son,
reggae icon Bob Marley (1945-1980), Mother Cedella Marley Booker
traces the unique history of Bob Marley and his contribution to
popular music as only a parent could. Booker recalls her poor rural
upbringing in the district of Nine Miles in Jamaica, her parents'
relationship, and her courtship with Captain Marley, the white man
forty years her senior who turned up one day in her father's fields
and took Cedella to his bed when she was just sixteen. Their child
was Bob Marley, who would introduce the world to reggae, and whose
talent would later transform the course of popular music with such
classics as "Get Up, Stand Up," "Buffalo Soldier," "No Woman, No
Cry," Stir It Up," and "One Love." With admirable candor, Booker
shares her struggles in raising Bob on her family's farm in St.
Ann's and the crime-riddled streets of Kingston, and her courageous
move to start a new life in the United States. Bob stayed behind in
Jamaica to perfect his music, though the two remained close as he
began his transformation into reggae superstar and cultural
prophet. Booker details Marley's embrace of Rastafarianism, the
women in his life, his use of ganja, and his last months when
Cedella nursed him until he succumbed to cancer. This book is a
true look at Marley's life-not just as a cultural icon, but as a
son.
Bob Marley left an indelible mark on modern music, both as a reggae
pioneer and as an enduring cultural icon. "Catch a Fire", now a
classic of rock biography, delves into the life of the leader of a
musical, spiritual, and political explosion that continues today.
Under the supervision of the author's widow and with the
collaboration of a Marley expert, this fourth edition contains a
wealth of new material, including many revisions made by the author
before his untimely death. An appendix to the new edition
chronicles Marley's legacy in recent years, as well as the ongoing
controversy over the possibility that Marley's remains might be
exhumed from Nine Mile, Jamaica, and reburied in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, where hundreds of Rastafarians live. The new edition also
contains an expanded discography and is factually updated
throughout.
Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final
tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest
of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say,
Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the story of
Marley's childhood abandonment, his formative years in Trench Town,
his seemingly meteoric rise to international fame and his tragic
death at 36. Weaving together the voices of Rita Marley, Peter Tosh
and Bunny Wailer-as well as band members, family and
friends-Steffens reveals extraordinary new details, dispels myths
and highlights the most dramatic elements of Marley's life; his
psychic abilities and his overriding commitment to the peace and
love message of Rastafari. This landmark work will reshape our
understanding of this legendary performer.
Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was
subsequently adopted by a white, working class family in Romford.
Never quite at home there, she escaped her small town background
and discovered a different way of life - making music. Lead singer
for platinum-selling band The Selecter, Pauline Black was the Queen
of British Ska. The only woman in a movement dominated by men, she
toured with The Specials, Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners when
they were at the top of the charts - and, sometimes, on their worst
behaviour. From childhood to fame, from singing to acting and
broadcasting, from adoption to her recent search for her birth
parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening story of
music, race, family and roots.
Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development
of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year
veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production
and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews
and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of
music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic
and creative forces that locally drive music production. By
focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording
studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music
creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different
to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening
of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged,
developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the
important relationship between music, technology and culture that
will appeal to a wide range of scholars.
Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve
this unique status? In this captivating new study of one of the
most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbee
sheds new light on issues such as Marley's contribution as a
musician and public intellectual, how he was granted access to the
global media system, and what his music means in cultural and
political terms.
Tracing Marley's life and work from Jamaica to the world stage,
Toynbee suggests that we need to understand Marley first and
foremost as a 'social author'. Trained in the co-operative yet also
highly competitive musical laboratory of downtown Kingston, Marley
went on to translate reggae into a successful international style.
His crowning achievement was to mix postcolonial anger and hope
with Jamaican textures and beats to produce the first world music.
However the period since his death has been marked by brutal and
intensifying inequality in the capitalist world system. There is an
urgent need, then, to reconsider the nature of his legacy. Toynbee
does this in the concluding chapters, weighing Marley's impact as
advocate of human emancipation against his marginalisation as a
'Natural Mystic' and pretext for disengagement from radical
politics.
When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to
Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them,
sparking the flames of one of Canada's most vibrant music scenes.
Professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the
story of how reggae brought black and white youth together, opening
up a cultural dialogue between Jamaican migrants and Canadians
along the city's ethnic frontlines. This underground subculture
rebelled against the status quo, broke through the bonds of race,
eased the acculturation process, and made bands such as Messenjah
and the Sattalites household names for a brief but important time.
What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world
dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he has not only remained the
single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a
shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generation after
generation of fans across the globe? On May 11, 1981, a little
after 11.30 in the morning, Bob Marley died. The man who introduced
reggae to a worldwide audience, in his own lifetime he had already
become a hero figure in the classic mythological sense. From
immensely humble beginnings and with talent and religious belief
his only weapons, the Jamaican recording artist applied himself
with unstinting perseverance to spreading his prophetic musical
message. And he had achieved it: only a year earlier, Bob Marley
and The Wailers' tour of Europe had seen them perform to the
largest audiences a musical act had up to that point experienced.
Record sales of Marley's albums before his death were spectacular;
in the years since his death they have become phenomenal, as each
new generation discovers afresh the remarkable power of his music.
Chris Salewicz, who had a sequence of adventures with Bob Marley in
Jamaica in 1979, offers us a comprehensive and detailed account of
Bob Marley's life and the world in which he grew up and came to
dominate. Never-before-heard interviews with dozens of people who
knew Marley are woven through a narrative that brings to life not
only the Rastafari religion and the musical scene in Jamaica, but
also the spirit of the man himself.
Most people know that Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a
singer-songwriter who popularised reggae music and whose Jamaican
culture and Rastafarian beliefs have attained worldwide influence.
What, perhaps, they don't know is that his music inspired 7,000
prisoners of war to escape; that after running out of money he was
forced to spend two years living in London; that he has sold more
than 75 million records around the world; and that he was shot
twice while trying to bring peace between two political groups.
Biographic: Marley presents an instant impression of his life, work
and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures
converted into infographics to reveal the musician behind the
music.
This is a pocket sized collection of Bob Marley hits presented in
chord songbook format. It includes lyrics and guitar chords.
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a
history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society.
In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton
musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and
concealment of racism by expressing identities that center
blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego
Calderon criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise
black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black
population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman,
disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that
support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship
campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaeton, to its
subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau
traces reggaeton's origins and its transformation from the music of
San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaeton, she
demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence
in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the
African diaspora.
Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about
the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture.
The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the
Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such
as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any
aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop
cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as
dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows
Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider
whether and how their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary
fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for
how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are
constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from
within the Caribbean.
Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about
the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture.
The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the
Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such
as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any
aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop
cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as
dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows
Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider
whether and how their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary
fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for
how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are
constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from
within the Caribbean.
Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae is a testimony in rare,
previously unpublished pictures of some of the greatest years of
Bob Marley's career and the history of reggae and dub music.
It features portraits, and performance and personal photography of
Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, Lee "Scratch" Perry,
Heptones, Inner Circle, Jacob Miller, Jr Murvin, Toots and the
Maytals, Burning Spear and Third World. Gottlieb-Walker also
recorded the historic backstage meeting of Marley and George
Harrison. The book features commentary from journalists and writers
including Cameron Crowe, Jeff Walker and Roger Steffens."
"
Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final
tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest
of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say,
Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the story of
Marley's childhood abandonment, his formative years in Trench Town,
his seemingly meteoric rise to international fame and his tragic
death at 36. Weaving together the voices of Rita Marley, Peter Tosh
and Bunny Wailer-as well as band members, family and
friends-Steffens reveals extraordinary new details, dispels myths
and highlights the most dramatic elements of Marley's life; his
psychic abilities and his overriding commitment to the peace and
love message of Rastafari. This landmark work will reshape our
understanding of this legendary performer.
Distillation of Sound focuses on the original music of Jamaica and
how, through dub reggae, Jamaican culture was expanded and shifted.
It will further the discussion on dub music, its importance to
Jamaican culture, and its influence on the rest of the world. Dub
music in Jamaica started in the early 1970s and by the end of the
decade had influenced an entire population. The music began to use
the rhythm track of a song as a song itself and spread quickly
throughout the sound systems of the island. The importance of dub
music and its influence on the music world frames the discussions
in this new book. How dub travelled and distilled to three places
in the world is covered in chapters focussing on the rise and
spread of dub in New York City, in England and in Japan. Abbey
discusses the separation between dub as a product and dub as an act
of the engineer. Codifying these two elements, and tracing them,
will allow for a more definitive approach to the culture and music
of dub. To define it, and its surrounding elements, five of the
first albums produced in the genre are discussed in three
parameters that help to define and set up the culture of dub music.
The albums discussed are Java, Java, Java, Java (Impact All Stars),
Aquarius Dub (Herman Chin Loy), Blackboard Jungle Dub (Lee
'Scratch' Perry), The Message Dubwise (Prince Buster), King Tubbys
Meets Rockers Uptown (Augustus Pablo). From the Preface: 'Jamaican
music has always been about creating with what is at hand. Taking
what is around you and making it into something great is the key to
dub and Jamaican culture. This attitude is what this project is
about. There is not enough written on the music that has inspired
and influenced so many people around the world and this is an
addition to the conversation. Dub music fixates on the engineer as
a musician and, in doing so, allows for the creator to interact
with echnology. Through this, the mixing board and other electronic
elements become musical instruments. Now, these technologies are
dominant in contemporary music and allow for people to easily
create in their own homes. Without the engineers and musicians in
the following work, these changes and shifts in technology and
music would not have occurred. Dub is also a refiguring of already
existing music. What this demonstrates is that music is ever
evolving and can be shifted through technology. It also suggests
that recorded music can always be modified and expanded upon. In
our contemporary world, this modification is seen every day online
and in people's daily lives. Dub created a way to view these
changes through music. The influence of technology in the
development of culture is the key to this work and to our
development in society. How technology can be modified, changed,
and evolved through the interaction of the engineer is the focus of
this project. This work will further the importance of dub music
and culture in our society. The definition and distinction between
version and dub is also an important element in the following work.
Jamaican music needs to be discussed more for its influence and
creative force in the entirety of the music world. The author is a
professional musician with the groups J. Navarro & the
Traitors, Detroit Riddim Crew, and 1592 and a producer of dub,
reggae and ska, and a professor of English and literature at
Oakland Community College in Michigan, USA. Genuine popular and
academic appeal. Will appeal to students and scholars of music and
Jamaican culture - and to academic libraries. Has genuine popular
appeal to those with an interest in Jamaican culture and music.
Bass Culture is a complete history of reggae, from its origins in the Jamaican sound-systems dances of the 1950s, through its enormous international triumphs of the 70s, to the current generation of new roots artists who are searching out a way forward for the sound. The story is remarkable: how a downtown music developed out of decades of cultural oppression to become a truly indigenous art form that went on to conquer the world. In an account that ranges from Kingston's ghetto areas and the cool hills of Jamaica's interior to the clubs and record shops of London and Birmingham, Lloyd Bradley tells the full story: the politics and the culture, the producers and the players, the heroes and the villains - but most of all, the music.
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Who Was Bob Marley?
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Katie Ellison, Who Hq; Illustrated by Gregory Copeland
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Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of
the most influential musicians of all time. Born in rural Jamaica,
this musician and songwriter began his career with his band, The
Wailing Wailers, in 1963. The Wailers went on to spread the gospel
of reggae music around the globe. Bob's distinctive style and
dedication to his Rastafari beliefs became a rallying cry for the
poor and disenfranchised the world over and led to a hugely
successful solo career. After his death in 1981, Bob Marley became
a symbol of Jamaican culture and identity. His greatest-hits album,
Legend, remains the best-selling reggae album of all time. Who Was
Bob Marley? tells the story of how a man with humble roots became
an international icon.
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