The First Rasta [[electronic resource] ] : Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism

• Autore: Davis Stephen
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 299.676; 299/.676
• Soggetto topico: Maragh, G. G; Rastafari movement -- History; Rastafari movement
• Altri autori: LeeHelene
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The First Rasta
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824074903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II