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Ska - The Rhythm of Liberation (Hardcover): Heather Augustyn Ska - The Rhythm of Liberation (Hardcover)
Heather Augustyn
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial origins to the shores of England and back across the Atlantic to the United States. Without ska music, there would be no reggae or Bob Marley, no British punk and pop blends, no American soundtrack to its various subcultures. In Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation, Heather Augustyn examines how ska music first emerged in Jamaica as a fusion of popular, traditional, and even classical musical forms. As a genre, it was a connection to Africa, a means of expression and protest, and a respite from the struggles of colonization and grinding poverty. Ska would later travel with West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, where British youth embraced the music, blending it with punk and pop and working its origins as a music of protest and escape into their present lives. The fervor of the music matched the energy of the streets as racism, poverty, and violence ran rampant. But ska called for brotherhood and unity. As series editor and pop music scholar Scott Calhoun notes: "Like a cultural barometer, the rise of ska indicates when and where social, political, and economic institutions disappoint their people and push them to re-invent the process for making meaning out of life. When a people or group embark on this process, it becomes even more necessary to embrace expressive, liberating forms of art for help during the struggle. In its history as a music of freedom, ska has itself flowed freely to wherever people are celebrating the rhythms and sounds of hope." Ska: The Rhythm Liberation should appeal to fans and scholars alike-indeed, any enthusiast of popular music and Caribbean, American, and British history seeking to understand the fascinating relationship between indigenous popular music and cultural and political history. Devotees of reggae, jazz, pop, Latin music, hip hop, rock, techno, dance, and world beat will find their appreciation of this remarkable genre deepened by this survey of the origins and spread of ska.

Ska - An Oral History (Paperback): Heather Augustyn Ska - An Oral History (Paperback)
Heather Augustyn; Foreword by Cedella Marley
R656 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R202 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands of musicians played a Jamaican rhythm, there were the men and women who created ska music, a blend of jazz, American rhythm and blues, and the indigenous music of the Caribbean. This book tells the story of ska music and its development from Jamaica to England, where the music took on a distinctively different tone, and finally to the rest of the world. Through the words of over 30 of legendary artists, gleaned from over a decade of interviews, the story of ska music is finally told by those who were there.

Women in Jamaican Music (Paperback): Heather Augustyn Women in Jamaican Music (Paperback)
Heather Augustyn
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women in Jamaican music who comprise significantly less than half of the Caribbean nation's musical landscape. This book covers the female contribution to Jamaican music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers, deejays and supporters of the arts. Relegated to marginalized spaces, these pioneering women fought for their claim to the spotlight amid oppressive conditions to help create and shape Jamaica's musical heritage.

Don Drummond - The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist (Paperback): Heather Augustyn Don Drummond - The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist (Paperback)
Heather Augustyn
R1,112 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R453 (41%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide despite poverty, class separation, mental illness, racial politics, exploitation, and sexism that resulted in murder. Through the words of Don Drummond's childhood friends, classmates, musicians, medical staff, legal counsel, and teachers, comes a first-hand story of his ""unusual mind."" They recall the early days in the recording studio, playing the instrumental backup for Bob Marley and others, and the nights in the Rasta camps where musicians burned the midnight oil and more. They roam the halls of the primitive and haunting mental hospitals; remember the gyrations of his lover, Margarita, the Rumba Queen, as she tantalised audiences at Club Havana; tell what happened that tragic night when Drummond stabbed Margarita four times; reveal details of the trial (delayed more than a year as Drummond was ruled mentally unfit) and offer insights into the ways that Drummond likely died in the asylum at age 35.

Drop the Mic - Last Line Writing Prompts for Strong Story Endings (Paperback): Heather Augustyn Drop the Mic - Last Line Writing Prompts for Strong Story Endings (Paperback)
Heather Augustyn
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Operation Jump Up - Jamaica's Campaign for a National Sound (Paperback): Heather Augustyn Operation Jump Up - Jamaica's Campaign for a National Sound (Paperback)
Heather Augustyn
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Songbirds - Pioneering Women in Jamaican Music (Paperback): Heather Augustyn Songbirds - Pioneering Women in Jamaican Music (Paperback)
Heather Augustyn
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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