Time and Memory in Reggae Music - The Politics of Hope

List of contents

List of tables List of boxes List of figures Acknowledgements 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 Bibliography Index

About the author

Sarah Daynes is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Daynes
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2010
• EAN: 9780719076213
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7621-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Music & Society; Music & Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries