03140nam 2200565Ia 450 991082407490332120200520144314.0(CKB)2670000000178187(EBL)888184(OCoLC)784959305(SSID)ssj0000662278(PQKBManifestationID)12264940(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000662278(PQKBWorkID)10721204(PQKB)10484384(SSID)ssj0000655952(PQKBManifestationID)11955692(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655952(PQKBWorkID)10631249(PQKB)10748797(MiAaPQ)EBC888184(EXLCZ)99267000000017818720130411d2003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe first Rasta Leonard Howell and the rise of Rastafarianism /by Helene Lee ; translated by Lily Davis ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen DavisChicago, Ill. Lawrence Hill Books20031 online resource (322 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55652-466-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Paradise21 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 CoverGoing 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, 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 GRastafari movementHistoryRastafari movementHistory.299.676Lee Helene417204Davis LilyDavis Stephen1947-1448041MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824074903321The first Rasta4190581UNINA