Chant Down Babylon

Author : Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566395847
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chanting Down Babylon written by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores Rastafari religion, culture, and politics in Jamaica and other parts of the African diaspora. An Afro-Caribbean religious and cultural movement that sprang from the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1930s, today Rastafari has close to one million adherents. The basic message of Rastafari—the dismantling of all oppressive institutions and the liberation of humankind—even has strong appeal to non-believers who are captivated by reggae music, the lyrics, and the "immortal spirit" of its enormously popular practitioner, Bob Marley. Probing into Rastafari's still evolving belief system, political goals, and cultural expression, the contributors to this volume emphasize the importance of Africana history and the Caribbean context. Author note:Nathaniel Samuel Murrellis Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and Visiting Professor at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology in Kingston, Jamaica.William David Spencerserves as Pastor of Encouragement at Pilgrim Church in Beverly, MA, and was an Adjunct Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston. He has authored, co-authored, or editedThe Prayer of Life of Jesus, Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel, God through the Looking Glass, Joy through the Night, 2 Corinthians: Bible Study CommentaryandThe Global God.Adrian Anthony McFarlaneis Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. He is author ofA Grammar of FearandEvil–A Husserlian-Wittgensteinian Hermeneutic.

Author : BURNING SPEAR.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chant Down Babylon written by BURNING SPEAR. and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony S. Koeninger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962576737
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chant Down Babylon written by Anthony S. Koeninger and published by . This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adaria A. Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chant Down Babylon written by Adaria A. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Walliss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317491033
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End All Around Us written by John Walliss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film. The essays draw on representations of the apocalypse in heavy metal music, science fiction, disaster movies and anime. The book examines key apocalyptic texts, focusing on their relevance to today. It will be invaluable to all those interested in the religious and cultural impact of apocalyptic thought.

Author : Carolyn Cooper
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381923
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noises in the Blood written by Carolyn Cooper and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of Jamaican popular culture—its folklore, idioms, music, poetry, song—even when written is based on a tradition of sound, an orality that has often been denigrated as not worthy of serious study. In Noises in the Blood, Carolyn Cooper critically examines the dismissed discourse of Jamaica’s vibrant popular culture and reclaims these cultural forms, both oral and textual, from an undeserved neglect. Cooper’s exploration of Jamaican popular culture covers a wide range of topics, including Bob Marley’s lyrics, the performance poetry of Louise Bennett, Mikey Smith, and Jean Binta Breeze, Michael Thelwell’s novelization of The Harder They Come, the Sistren Theater Collective’s Lionheart Gal, and the vitality of the Jamaican DJ culture. Her analysis of this cultural "noise" conveys the powerful and evocative content of these writers and performers and emphasizes their contribution to an undervalued Caribbean identity. Making the connection between this orality, the feminized Jamaican "mother tongue," and the characterization of this culture as low or coarse or vulgar, she incorporates issues of gender into her postcolonial perspective. Cooper powerfully argues that these contemporary vernacular forms must be recognized as genuine expressions of Jamaican culture and as expressions of resistance to marginalization, racism, and sexism. With its focus on the continuum of oral/textual performance in Jamaican culture, Noises in the Blood, vividly and stylishly written, offers a distinctive approach to Caribbean cultural studies.

Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879306557
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reggae & Caribbean Music written by Dave Thompson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complete historic overview of the sounds of the entire English-speaking Caribbean region, bringing together informative essays on the development of a range of music styles and the industry's top performers. Original.

Author : W. B. Carnochan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804760985
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Legends written by W. B. Carnochan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783232234
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bob Marley: Complete Chord Songbook written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2005-08-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Marley is perhaps the most important voice of Reggae music, crossing-over and achieving an iconic status in the mainstream pop industry. His songs of protest, freedom, liberation, love and equality have become some of the best-loved songs of the era, poignantly evoking the struggles, hardships and injustices of a troubled time. This special addition to the Chord Songbook series presents all 124 Bob Marley songs as featured on such albums as African Herbsman and Catch A Fire, right up to Uprising and Confrontation, including extra songs from later compilations. All the songs have been arranged with a full chord guide and complete lyrics.

Author : Vijay Prashad
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458781178
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darker Nations written by Vijay Prashad and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor. Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement - the idea of the Thi...