Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control - Softcover

King, Stephen A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160473003X ISBN 13: 9781604730036

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 2007

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Book by King Stephen A

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Who changed Bob Marley’s famous peace-and-love anthem into “Come to Jamaica and feel all right”?

When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastafarian spreading beach towels for American tourists?

Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists.

Visitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica’s poor. Rastafarians were once the target of police harassment and public condemnation. Now the music is a marketing tool, and the Rastafarians are no longer a violent counterculture, but an important symbol of Jamaica’s new cultural heritage.

This book attempts to explain how the Jamaican establishment’s strategies of social control influenced the evolutionary direction of both t

Nota de la solapa:

How Jamaica fashioned a tourist beacon from reggae music and the Rastafarian revolution

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• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 160473003X
• ISBN 13: 9781604730036
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200