Time and Memory in Reggae Music: The Politics of Hope

by Sarah Daynes

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music constructs a musical, religious and socio-political memory in rupture with dominant models is vividly illustrated by the lyrics themselves. How is the past remembered in the present? How does remembering the past allow for imagining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784992801
• ISBN13: 9781784992804
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"