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Autore |
Davis Stephen |
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Titolo |
The First Rasta [[electronic resource] ] : Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism |
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Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Maragh, G. G |
Rastafari movement -- History |
Rastafari movement |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Stephen Davis; 1 The Footsteps of a Spirit; 2 The Bird Hunter; 3 En Route to New York; 4 Harlem; 5 Athlyi Rogers, Forerunner of the Rasta Movement; 6 Early Companions; 7 The Ethiopianists; 8 First Sermons in St. Thomas; 9 Jail House; 10 The Nya-Binghis; 11 The Hindu Legacy; 12 From One Prison to Another; 13 Bloody '38; 14 Pinnacle; 15 Life in the Hills; 16 The First Raid; 17 Howell and the Women; 18 Ganja Plantation; 19 Like Children of God in Paradise (Interview with Blade Howell); 20 A Stroll in Paradise |
21 Howell and Bustamante 22 The 1954 Raid; 23 The Ghettos; 24 Pinnacle's Last Days; 25 God or the Devil?; 26 The New Culture; 27 Rasta Music-Kumina or Burru?; 28 Count Ossie; 29 The 1960's; 30 Reggae Stars; 31 Twelve Tribes; 32 The End; Notes; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta-ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks-this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920's Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, |
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king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20th century, Rastafarianism. Although jailed, ridiculed, and treated as insane, Howell, also known as the G |
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