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Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World (Polity celebrities series)
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Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World (Polity celebrities series) Hardcover - 2007

by Toynbee, Jason

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Polity, 2007-11-12. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9400 in x 8.2700 in x 5.5100 in. Very Good condition. Light, reasonable wear. Clean, mark-free interior!
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  • Title Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World (Polity celebrities series)
  • Author Toynbee, Jason
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity
  • Date 2007-11-12
  • Features Bibliography, Discography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000960147
  • 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

Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve this unique status? In this captivating new study of one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbee sheds new light on issues such as Marley's contribution as a musician and public intellectual, how he was granted access to the global media system, and what his music means in cultural and political terms.

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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  • New York Review of Books, 04/09/2009, Page 34

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