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Time and Memory in Reggae Music: The Politics of Hope
Sarah Daynes
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On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music constructs a musical, religious and socio-political memory in rupture with dominant models is illustrated by the lyrics themselves. How is the past remembered in the present? How does remembering the past allow for imagining the future? How does collective memory participate in the historical grounding of collective identity? What is the relationship between tradition and revolution, between the recollection of the past and the imagination of the future, between passivity and action? Ultimately, this case study of 'memory at work' opens up on a theoretical problem: the conceptualisation of time and its relationship with memory.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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List of tables and boxes
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List of figures
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part I A study in elective affinity: Music, religion, memory
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1 Reggae and Rastafari: A short history
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2 Interpreting songs: Notes on methodology
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3 A diachronic analysis of Jamaican reggae charts, 1968–2000
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4 The construction of a musical memory
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Part II Remembering the past
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5 Slavery and the diaspora: Temporal and spatial articulations
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6 The construction of a religious chain of memory
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Part III Revealing the future
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7 Messianism, between past and future
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8 Hope and redemption
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9 The eschatology as future-present
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10 The construction of a socio-political memory
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Part IV From revelation to revolution
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11 Rhetoric of oppression and social critique
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12 Only rasta can liberate the people: resistance and revolution
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Part V Conclusion
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13 Time and memory
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Appendices:
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Annex 1: List of songs mentioned, by artist
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Annex 2: Albums in the corpus
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Bibliography
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Index
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Footnote
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Introduction
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Citable Link
Published: 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
- 978-1-84779-692-9 (ebook)
- 978-1-78499-280-4 (paper)