Time and Memory in Reggae Music - The Politics of Hope

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Daynes is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: A study in elective affinity: music, religion and memory1. Reggae and Rastafari: a history2. Interpreting songs: notes on methodology3. Analysis of reggae charts, 1968-20004. The construction of a musical memory in reggae musicPart II: Remembering the past5. Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations6. The construction of a religious chain of memoryPart III: Revealing the future7. Messianism, between past and future8. Hope and redemption9. The end of the world as future-presentPart IV: From revelation to revolution10. The construction of a sociopolitical memory of liberation11. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique12. Resistance and revolutionPart V: Conclusion13. Time and memoryIndex

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Daynes, Daynes Sarah
• Assisted by: Peter Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9781784992804
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-280-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Music & Society; Music and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Reggae, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Reggae and Ska, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Reggae, Sociology: sport & leisure, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Sociology: sport and leisure, Popular Music, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)