Reggae Routes

The Story of Jamaican Music

Kevin Chang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1997
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-56639-629-5 (ISBN)

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Bob Marley's recordings, some twenty years after his death, still enjoy enormous international popularity. For popular music fans in most of the world, reggae looms so large as to be Jamaica's only music and Marley its consummate musician. In this book, Jamaicans Kevin Chang and Wayne Chen offer a history of reggae, accounting for its rise and devolution. Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras, each with a distinctive beat - ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dancehall. Ska dates from about 1960 to mid-1966 and rocksteady from 1966 to 1968, while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat. The reggae era had two phases, /u0022early reggae/u0022 up to 1974 and /u0022roots reggae/u0022 up to 1983. Since 1983 dancehall has been the prevalent the prevalent sound. The authors describe each stage in the development of the music, identifying the most popular songs and artists, highlighting the significant social, political, and economic issues as they affected the music scene. While they write from a Jamaican perspective, the intended audience is /u0022any person, local or foreign, interested in an intelligent discussion of reggae music and Jamaica./u0022 Featuring some four hundred illustrations that range from album covers to rare photos, Reggae Routes profiles the innumerable artists, producers, and recordings that secured an international audience for Jamaican music.
Artists discussed: Toots and the Maytals, the Wailers, Gaylads, Desmond Dekker, Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Burning Spear, Itals, Wailing Souls, Skatalites, Heptones, and hundreds more.

Kevin O'Brien Chang holds an MBA from the University of Toronto. He lives and operates a business in rural Jamaica. An occasional freelance writer, he has contributed to the Toronto Star, the Jamaica Gleaner, and the Jamaica Observer. His music interest ranges from reggae to the opera. Wayne Chen holds a degree in law from the University of the West Indies. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica's largest supermarket chain.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments The History Introduction The Heartbeat of a People Roots Music: Kumina, Quadrille, Mento, Blues and Jazz Sound System Days and Nights Rhythm and Blues: Rasta and Oh Carolina Ska, Ska, Ska Get Ready for Rocksteady Do the Reggae Reggae International: The Harder They Come and Bob Marley Dub and Roots Inna the Dancehall Dancehall Massive The Pioneers: Count Matchukie and King Stitt U-Roy the Originator Riddim Wild Talking Gleaners The Sounds The Sixties The Seventies The Eighties The Nineties Appendices Charts Notes and References Bibliography List of Sources A brief history of Rastafarianism Index

Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-56639-629-8 / 1566396298
ISBN-13	978-1-56639-629-5 / 9781566396295
Zustand	Neuware