Daynes Time and memory in reggae music

The politics of hope
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84779-287-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten

Reihe: Music and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daynes, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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