Jamaican Popular Music from Mento to Dancehall Reggae: A Bibliographic Guide (Black Music Reference Series, Volume 2)

by John Gray

Despite its global popularity, reggae, and the myriad Jamaican popular music forms which led up to it creation, has long lacked a bibliographic resource that could assist its legion of fans, students and scholars. Until now. Based on 15 years of research Jamaican Popular Music offers nearly 3700 entries on the evolution of the island'??s commercial music scene from the calypso-like mento of the late-1940s and '??50s to the roots reggae revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984413413
• ISBN13: 9780984413416
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: African Diaspora Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"