Toynbee Bob Marley

Herald of a Postcolonial World?
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5737-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Polity celebrities series

Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achievethis unique status? In this captivating new study of one of themost influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbeesheds new light on issues such as Marley's contribution as amusician and public intellectual, how he was granted access to theglobal media system, and what his music means in cultural andpolitical terms.
Tracing Marley's life and work from Jamaica to the worldstage, Toynbee suggests that we need to understand Marley first andforemost as a 'social author'. Trained in theco-operative yet also highly competitive musical laboratory ofdowntown Kingston, Marley went on to translate reggae into asuccessful international style. His crowning achievement was to mixpostcolonial anger and hope with Jamaican textures and beats toproduce the first world music.
However the period since his death has been marked by brutal andintensifying inequality in the capitalist world system. There is anurgent need, then, to reconsider the nature of his legacy. Toynbeedoes this in the concluding chapters, weighing Marley'simpact as advocate of human emancipation against hismarginalisation as a 'Natural Mystic' and pretext fordisengagement from radical politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toynbee, Jason

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Bob Marley? 7
2 Nesta Marley and Colonial Jamaica 37
3 Bob Marley at the Reggae Conjuncture 72
4 Standing Up and Finally Being Counted 114
5 Up On the Rock, Chanting Down Babylon 153
6 After Bob 196
Discography and Filmography 232
Bibliography 236
Index 252

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Toynbee is Lecturer in Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at the Open University.