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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719076218
• ISBN13: 9780719076213
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"