Words of Our Mouth, Meditations of Our Heart - Pioneering Musicians of Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, and Dancehall

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Celebrating the legendary studio musicians of Jamaican popular music through personal photographs and interviews Zusammenfassung This is the first book devoted to the studio musicians who were central to Jamaica’s popular-music explosion. It provides new insights into the birth of Jamaican popular music in the recording studios of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Bilby, Kenneth M. Bilby
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780819575883
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7588-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Music / Interview; Music/Interview; Music / Interview
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art