Time and memory in reggae music [electronic resource] : the politics of hope / Sarah Daynes.
2010
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Time and memory in reggae music [electronic resource] : the politics of hope / Sarah Daynes.
Published
Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : illustrations.
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Music and society
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On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and the 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 vividly 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 into 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 conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and the 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 vividly 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 into 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 conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-290) and index.
Contents
A Study in Elective Affinity: Music, Religion, Memory. Reggae and Rastafari: a short history ; Interpreting songs: notes on methodology ; A diachronic analysis of Jamaican reggae charts, 1968-2000 ; The construction of a musical memory
Remembering the Past. Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations ; The construction of a religious chain of memory
Revealing the Future. Messianism, between past and future ; Hope and redemption ; The eschatology as future-present ; The construction of a socio-political memory
From Revelation to Revolution. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique ; Only rasta can liberate the people: resistance and revolution
Time and memory
List of songs mentioned, by artist ; Albums in the corpus.
Remembering the Past. Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations ; The construction of a religious chain of memory
Revealing the Future. Messianism, between past and future ; Hope and redemption ; The eschatology as future-present ; The construction of a socio-political memory
From Revelation to Revolution. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique ; Only rasta can liberate the people: resistance and revolution
Time and memory
List of songs mentioned, by artist ; Albums in the corpus.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Great Britain -- England.
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