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Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? Hardback - 2008
by Jason Toynbee
- New
- Hardcover
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- Title Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World?
- Author Jason Toynbee
- Binding Hardback
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2008-01-01
- Features Bibliography, Discography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780745630885
- ISBN 9780745630885 / 074563088X
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.63 x 0.94 in (21.64 x 14.30 x 2.39 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Popular music - Jamaica - History and, Reggae musicians - Jamaica
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019565463
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- New York Review of Books, 04/09/2009, Page 34