1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465643703321

Autore

Daynes Sarah

Titolo

Time and memory in reggae music [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of hope / / Sarah Daynes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010

ISBN

1-78170-211-X

1-84779-287-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Music and society

Disciplina

781.64609

Soggetti

Reggae music - History and criticism

Reggae music - Social aspects

Time in music

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. A study in elective affinity : music, religion, memory -- pt. I. Remembering the past -- pt. III. Revealing the future -- pt. IV. From revelation to revolution -- pt. V. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970's and late 1990's, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music constructs a musical, religious and socio-political memory in rupture with dominant models is vividly illustrated by the lyrics themselves. How is the past remembered in the present? How does remembering the past allow for imagining the future? How does collective memory participate into the historical grounding of collective identity? What is the relationship between tradition...



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792664403321

Autore

Baggott Julianna

Titolo

Instructions, abject & fuming / / poems by Julianna Baggott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, [Illinois] : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8093-3573-5

0-8093-3574-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 pages)

Collana

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Classificazione

POE005010

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

American poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"In Instructions: Abject and Fuming, poet Julianna Baggott wrote some of the poems using words long lost from the English language, challenging our current language's sense of restraint. Other poems are about faith, quite directly, set against the backdrop of contemporary life"--