Detalls del llibre
Tracing Marley?s life and work from Jamaica to the world stage, Toynbee suggests that we need to understand Marley first and foremost as a ?social author?. Trained in the co-operative yet also highly competitive musical laboratory of downtown Kingston, Marley went on to translate reggae into a successful international style. His crowning achievement was to mix postcolonial anger and hope with Jamaican textures and beats to produce the first world music.
However the period since his death has been marked by brutal and intensifying inequality in the capitalist world system. There is an urgent need, then, to reconsider the nature of his legacy. Toynbee does this in the concluding chapters, weighing Marley?s impact as advocate of human emancipation against his marginalisation as a ?Natural Mystic? and pretext for disengagement from radical politics.
- Autor/a Jason Toynbee
- ISBN13 9780745630892
- ISBN10 0745630898
- Pàgines 263
- Any Edició 2007
- Fecha de publicación 05/11/2007
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
Ressenyes i valoracions
Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Alemany, Francès)
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- Jason Toynbee
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- Polity (2007)
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