King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land

King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2020-02-14

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0774862300

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When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one Canada’s most vibrant music scenes. In King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land, professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the story of how the organic, transnational nature of reggae brought black and white youth together, opening up a cultural dialogue between Jamaican migrants and Canadians along Toronto’s ethnic frontlines. This underground subculture rebelled against the status quo, eased the acculturation process, and made bands such as Messenjah and the Sattalites household names for a brief but important time. By looking at Canada’s golden age of reggae from the perspective of both Jamaican migrants and white Torontonians, Wilson reveals the power of music to break through the bonds of race and ease the hardships associated with transnational migration.


Postnationalism Prefigured

Postnationalism Prefigured

Author: Charles V. Carnegie

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780813530550

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We do not consider it noteworthy when somebody moves three thousand miles from New York to Los Angeles. Yet we think that movement across borders requires a major degree of adjustment, and that an individual who migrates 750 miles from Haiti to Miami has done something extraordinary. Charles V. Carnegie suggests that to people from the Caribbean, migration is simply one of many ways to pursue a better future and to survive in a world over which they have little control Carnegie shows not only that the nation-state is an exhausted form of political organization, but that in the Caribbean the ideological and political reach of the nation-state has always been tenuous at best. Caribbean peoples, he suggests, live continually in breach of the nation-state configuration. Drawing both on his own experiences as a Jamaican-born anthropologist and on the examples provided by those who have always considered national borders as little more than artificial administrative nuisances, Carnegie investigates a fascinating spectrum of individuals, including Marcus Garvey, traders, black albinos, and Caribbean Ba'hais. If these people have not themselves developed a scholarly doctrine of transnationalism, they have, nevertheless, effectively lived its demand and prefigured a postnational life.


Song of Exile

Song of Exile

Author: David W. Stowe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0190466855

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Oft-referenced and frequently set to music, Psalm 137 - which begins "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion" - has become something of a cultural touchstone for music and Christianity across the Atlantic world. It has been a top single more than once in the 20th century, from Don McLean's haunting Anglo-American folk cover to Boney M's West Indian disco mix. In Song of Exile, David Stowe uses a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach that combines personal interviews, historical overview, and textual analysis to demonstrate the psalm's enduring place in popular culture. The line that begins Psalm 137 - one of the most lyrical of the Hebrew Bible - has been used since its genesis to evoke the grief and protest of exiled, displaced, or marginalized communities. Despite the psalm's popularity, little has been written about its reception during the more than 2,500 years since the Babylonian exile. Stowe locates its use in the American Revolution and the Civil Rights movement, and internationally by anti-colonial Jamaican Rastafari and immigrants from Ireland, Korea, and Cuba. He studies musical references ranging from the Melodians' Rivers of Babylon to the score in Kazakh film Tulpan. Stowe concludes by exploring the presence and absence in modern culture of the often-ignored final words: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Usually excised from liturgy and forgotten by scholars, Stowe finds these words echoed in modern occurrences of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and more generally in the culture of vengeance that has existed in North America from the earliest conflicts with Native Americans. Based on numerous interviews with musicians, theologians, and writers, Stowe reconstructs the rich and varied reception history of this widely used, yet mysterious, text.


Africans in Europe

Africans in Europe

Author: Michael Ugarte

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0252035038

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What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of Equatorial Guinea were forced to leave, whether because of the slave trade of the early nineteenth century or the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world. Based on personal stories of people forced to leave and those who left of their own accord, Africans in Europe captures the nuanced realities and widespread impact of mobile populations. Ugarte illustrates the global material inequalities that occur when groups and populations migrate from their native land of colonization to other countries and regions that are often the lands of the former colonizers. By focusing on the geographical, emotional, and intellectual dynamics of Equatorial Guinea's human movements, readers gain an inroad to "the consciousness of an age" and an understanding of the global realities that will define the cultural, economic, and political currents of the twenty-first century.


The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

Author: Ryan P. Harper

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2017-04-26

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1496810937

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In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market. The Homecomings represent "southern gospel." Typically that means a musical style popular among white evangelical Christians in the American South and Midwest, and it sometimes overlaps in style, theme, and audience with country music. The Homecomings' nostalgic orientation--their celebration of "traditional" kinds of American Christian life--harmonize well with southern gospel music, past and present. But amidst the backward gazes, the Homecomings also portend and manifest change. The Gaithers' deliberate racial integration of their stages, their careful articulation of a relatively inclusive evangelical theology, and their experiments with an array of musical forms demonstrate that the Homecoming is neither simplistically nostalgic, nor solely "southern." Harper reveals how the Gaithers negotiate a tension between traditional and changing community norms as they seek simultaneously to maintain and expand their audience as well as to initiate and respond to shifts within their fan base. Pulling from his field work at Homecoming concerts, behind the scenes with the Gaithers, and with numerous Homecoming fans, Harper reveals the Homecoming world to be a dynamic, complicated constellation in the formation of American religious identity.


Golden Legends

Golden Legends

Author: W. B. Carnochan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0804760985

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From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.


The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: Reggae

The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: Reggae

Author: Wise Publications

Publisher: Wise Publications

Published: 2007-06-05

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1783232811

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The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: Reggae is a collection of over eighty classic reggae songs from the ‘60s to the present day, featuring the best of rocksteady, ska and roots reggae through to lovers rock, dancehall and raggae. All the songs have been arranged in the original keys from the actual hits recording, with full lyrics and Guitar chord boxes. The collection includes: - 007 (Shanty Town) [Desmond Dekker & The Aces] - 229582 Rudy, A Message To You [Dandy Livingstone] - 54-46 Was My Number [Toots & The Maytals] - Amigo [Black Slate] - Big Seven [Judge Dread] - Black And White [Greyhound] - Don't Turn Around [Aswad] - Everything I Own [Ken Boothe] - Feel Like Jumping [Marcia Griffiths] - Ghost Town [The Specials] - Kingston Town [Lord Creator] - Legalize It [Peter Tosh] - Love Won't Come Easy [The Heptones] - Madness [Prince Buster] - Night Nurse [Gregory Isaacs] - Police and Thieves [Junior Murvin] - Pressure Drop [Toots & The Maytals] - Red, Red Wine [Tony Tribe] - Redemption Song [Bob Marley] - Soldiers [Steel Pulse] - Strange Things [John Holt] - Suzanne Beware Of The Devil [Dandy Livingstone] - Tradition [Burning Spear] - You Can Get It If You Really Want [Jimmy Cliff] And many more!


Conversations with Rita Dove

Conversations with Rita Dove

Author: Rita Dove

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781578065509

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Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Thomas and Beulah and the nation's first female African American Poet Laureate


The Music Never Died

The Music Never Died

Author: Mark Swartz

Publisher: Verse Chorus Press

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 195916306X

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Sixteen irreverent and inventive fictions that riff on rock and rap mythology to envisage alternate paths for music legends who died young. What if Biggie Smalls had survived the assassin’s bullets and reinvented hip-hop with the help of an avant-garde luminary? If Amy Winehouse had shaken off her demons and channeled her inner Barbra Streisand into a new life on a tropical island? If Jeff Buckley had been pulled alive from the Mississippi by a devilish hand and become a pioneer of Southern black metal? With accompanying illustrations by Jeb Loy Nichols, Mark Swartz’s stories imagine what might have happened to these stars and more—including Jimi Hendrix, Gram Parsons, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye, Lhasa de Sela, Lil Peep, and Jim Morrison—if their untimely deaths had been averted, or somehow had not been the end of their lives. Booklist praised Mark Swartz’s fiction for its “lithe satirical humor, impressive intellectual dimension, and sly provocation,” and these qualities are on full display in these at once heartfelt and borderline absurd tales.


Ready for Revolution

Ready for Revolution

Author: Stokely Carmichael

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 862

ISBN-13: 0684850036

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The long-anticipated, riveting autobiography of the late Stokely Carmichael chronicles the legendary civil rights leader's work as the charismatic patriarch of Black Power, Pan-African activist, and social revolutionary - a major milestone in African-American autobiography. Populated with an international cast of luminaries, including James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Miriam Makeba, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro, this book captures the cultural upheavals that define the modern world.