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2. Reggae: The steady rock of black Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kopkind,Andrew, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2013
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: The rock history reader.Pages: 149-151.(AN: 2013-00127).
- Notes:
- Reprint of the article cited as RILM ref]2007-07178/ref].
3. Solid foundation: An oral history of reggae
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Katz,David, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Published:
- London: Jawbone Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- The first edition is abstracted as RILM ref]2003-02263/ref].
4. Reggae on the border: The possibilities of a frontera soundscape
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alvarez,Luis, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Transnational encounters: Music and performance at the U.S.-Mexico border.Pages: 19-40.(AN: 2011-06824).
- Notes:
- Examines the political and cultural possibilities and limits of the wide-ranging reggae scene that has emerged along both sides of the U.S./Mexico border since the 1990s. It investigates why and how members of seemingly disparate border communities, including Mexicanas/os, Chicanas/os, and Native Americans, find common social and political ground playing Afro-Caribbean inspired music. It also interrogates how people living in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have responded to the impact of economic and political globalization by using reggae to fashion multiethnic and post-national political formations and social relationships at the grassroots.
5. The natural mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Grant,Colin, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Published:
- New York: W.W. Norton
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- The definitive group biography of the Wailers—Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Livingston—chronicling their rise to fame and power and offering a portrait of a seminal group during a period of exuberant cultural evolution. Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers—one of the most influential groups in popular music. A history of the band is presented from their upbringing in the brutal slums of Kingston to their first recordings and then international superstardom. It is argued that these reggae stars offered three models for black men in the second half of the 20th century: accommodate and succeed (Marley), fight and die (Tosh), or retreat and live (Livingston). The author meets with Rastafarian elders, Obeah men, and other folk authorities as he attempts to unravel the mysteries of Jamaica's famously impenetrable culture and to offer a sophisticated understanding of Jamaican politics, heritage, race, and religion.
6. You can’t go to Zion with a carnal mind: Slackness and culture in the music of King Yellowman
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hagerman,Brent, (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Jamaican deejay Yellowman is best known for 'slackness': lyrics centered on masculine heterosexual potency, sexist objectification of women, and graphic sexual narratives. Yet a deeper look at Yellowman's life and recorded output suggests that when his slackness is read in the context of Afro-Jamaican culture, reggae history, and his Rastafarian faith, a more complex interpretation of his slackness is needed. The study draws on Carolyn Cooper's (2001) theory that slackness is a 'metaphorical revolt against law and order, an undermining of consensual standards of decency' (p. 141). Whereas the term 'culture' is used in reggae to depict music that is Afrocentric, Rasta-inspired, and socially conscious, and is normally seen as the antithesis of slackness, it is suggested that for Yellowman, the slack/culture dichotomy is eroded when slackness becomes part of the religious repertoire of resistance against mainstream Jamaican society. The dissertation presents: a) an overview of theory and methodology b) an ethnographic case study based on Yellowman's life and career, and c) four analytical chapters that offer itineraries to theorize slackness in Yellowman's music. First, it is argued that through slackness Yellowman subverted embedded Jamaican cultural notions of sexuality, gender, race, nationality, and beauty by promoting the dundus (black albino) as sexually appealing, hyper-masculine, and part of the imagined black nation. Second, it is demonstrated how Yellowman's sexual lyrics are an example of Obika Gray's (2004) thesis that slackness was a conscious political project employed by the Jamaican poor to contest the normative values of dominant society. The pitting of Yellowman and slackness in reggae journalism against Bob Marley and culture is contested. Third, it is refuted that Yellowman employs slackness for the purpose of moral regulation based on conservative Afro-Jamaican sexual mores and his understanding of Rastafarian morality. Finally, Yellowman's perforating of Christian dualistic ideas of carnal/spiritual is situated in the Rastafarian Babylon/Zion binary, demonstrating how Afro-Caribbean religion has redefined Christian dualism using an Afrocentric body-positive ideology.
7. Timely fashion would be a plus
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Coke,Dennis (Author) and Coke,Kelli (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 20-May 26, 2010
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 20 : 20
- Notes:
- What needs to be considered after 29 years of this awards event is how to produce a show that not only showcases the best of the best but how to present it in a timely fashion so that everyone can enjoy the evening. Unfortunately, we were unable to remain for the full presentation due to the interminable time it took to present the awards and numerous proclamations. We were fortunate to see Gramps Morgan, Dean Fraser, Brigadier Jerry, Tony Rebel, and the indomitable Alison Hinds. However, we missed Tarrus Riley, [Julian Marley], Queen lirica and some of the other top artists slated to perform.
8. Reggae fever in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Springer,Bevan (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 28-Mar 5, 2008
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 : 14
- Notes:
- The month's activities organized include a Global Reggae Conference hosted at the University of the West Indies' Mona Campus, featuring musician Gilberto Gil, now Brazil's minister of culture, and a Reggae Film Festival hosted by Jamaica's Ministry of Information and Culture.
9. Lincoln Center rooting for the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lee,Simon (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-09-30
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 8
- Notes:
- The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, a group of Nyabinghi ceremonial drummers founded by the legendary Count Ossie in the 1950s, is not only making its New York debut but is raising the curtain on the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' "Caribbean Roots: Caribbean Routes" festival. Chris Combette, who has been collaborating with Mungal Patasar on several tracks for his new album, opened the show with his beautiful fusion of Caribbean styles - samba, salsa, soca, bossa nova, reggae and zouk sweeping over the auditorium like warm waves. Based in French Guiana, bordering Brazil, Combette has soaked up the melodies of the region, while his lyrics address the nostalgia or alienation of the immigrant, and racist murder in the metropole. Beneath his sinuous, sometimes ethereal music lurked incisive Kwéyol irony and melancholy metaphors. It was left to Kali and his banjo to bring down the curtain on the festival with his brilliant reworking of Martiniquan traditional music, mazurk, biguine, chouval bwa, gwo ka (from Guadeloupe) with reggae, funk and jazz. It was good to hear St. Lucian Luther François, one of the Caribbean's foremost contemporary composers and sax players, adding punch to this excellent band and the finale of a significant festival for Caribbean music.
10. Prophet and loss: A Bob Marley documentary forms the centrepiece of a Channel 4 special series on the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pinkerton,Lee (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-07-31
- Published:
- London, UK
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Voice
- Journal Title Details:
- 919 : 57
- Notes:
- Prophet and loss: A [Bob Marley] documentary forms the centrepiece of a Channel 4 special series on the Caribbean The music continues on August 7 with Top Ten: Caribbean, a celebration of Latino, reggae, ragga, hip-hop and everything in between with the 10 most successful Caribbean chart acts in pop history. Representing the lighter side of Caribbean life is rising star Richard Blackwood in a one-off Caribbean special of his entertainment series, The Richard Blackwood Show.