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Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts

10/27/11

Bob Marley - Redemption Song (Live - Jamaica 1980)

Bob Marley - Redemption Song (Live - Jamaica 1980) Video Clips. Duration : 2.07 Mins.


Redemption Song (Canção da Redenção) Velhos piratas, é, eles me roubaram Me venderam para os navios mercantes Minutos depois ele me jogaram no porão Mas minha mão foi feita forte pela mão do Todo-Poderoso Seguimos nessa geração Triunfantemente. Você nao vai ajudar a cantar Essas canções de liberdade? Porque é tudo que já tive: Canções de redenção Canções de redenção Emancipem-se da escravidão mental; Ninguém além de nós mesmos pode libertar nossa mente. Uú! Não tenha medo da energia atômica, Porque nenhum deles pode parar o tempo Por quanto tempo vão matar nossos profetas, enquanto ficamos parados olhando? É, alguns dizem que é só uma parte disso: Temos que completar o livro. Você nao vai ajudar a cantar Essas canções de liberdade? Porque é tudo que já tive: Canções de redenção: Essas canções de liberdade, Canções de liberdade. Bob Marley

Keywords: Bob, Marley, Redemption, Song, (Live, Jamaica, 1980), reggae

7/2/11

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica Review


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Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica Overview

Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this musical and cultural phenomenon: its growth and historical role within Jamaican society, its economy of star making, its technology of production, its performative practices, and its capacity to channel political beliefs through popular culture in ways that are urgent, tangible, and lasting.
Norman C. Stolzoff brings a fan’s enthusiasm to his broad perspective on dancehall, providing extensive interviews, original photographs, and anthropological analysis from eighteen months of fieldwork in Kingston. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion but also between different factions struggling to gain control of the island nation’s political culture. Dancehall culture thus remains a key arena where the future of this volatile nation is shaped. As his argument unfolds, Stolzoff traces the history of Jamaican music from its roots in the late eighteenth century to 1945, from the addition of sound systems and technology during the mid-forties to early sixties, and finally through the post-independence years from the early sixties to the present.
Wake the Town and Tell the People offers a general introduction for those interested in dancehall music and culture. For the fan or musicologist, it will serve as a comprehensive reference book.

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6/6/11

Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley in Jamaica and Beyond

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Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley in Jamaica and Beyond Overview

In 1976, while on assignment in Jamaica for Time magazine, David Burnett photographed Bob Marley for the first time, and Burnett became so entranced by Marley’s charisma that he continued to document the reggae king throughout his groundbreaking European “Exodus” tour. Burnett’s vision, coupled with Marley’s larger-than-life charisma, resulted in an amazing collection of images, only a handful of which appeared in the Time article. The other photos — more than 200 in all — appear for the first time in Soul Rebel. This stunning visual biography offers a rare look at Marley’s personal life in Jamaica, as well as the exodus from his home country that culminated in his tragic death in 1981. Though it focused on Marley, Burnett’s work also canvassed a wide array of up-and-coming reggae talents, providing striking early looks at Peter Tosh, Lee Scratch Perry, Burning Spear, and Ras Michael. Compelling and incomparably candid, Soul Rebel is a remarkable testament to the legacy of a legend.

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