Reggae : the rough guide /
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| Author / Creator: | Barrow, Steve, 1945- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. / edited by Orla Duane. |
| Imprint: | London : Rough Guides, 2001. |
| Description: | x, 475 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rough guides Rough guides (Series) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4525820 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The beginnings: mento to ska
- Jamaican folk traditions
- Mento and the birth of Jamaica's record industry
- The birth of the sound system
- Ska authentic
- Jamaican jazz
- 2. Rude boys and rocksteady
- Rude-boy music
- Get ready, it's rocksteady--Duke Reid and Coxsone
- Catch this beat: the new producers
- 3. Early reggae
- The Big Three in the reggae era
- Promotions to the premier league
- New producers enter the arena
- Wake the town: how the deejays came to rule the nation
- Rebel music and Rasta chants
- 4. Roots reggae
- Bob Marley and the Wailers
- The UK connection
- The producer as auteur
- The small axes
- Cultural toasters
- The mainstream
- Roots harmonies
- Some reflective Rastamen
- 5. Dub
- Instrumental, chapter and version
- Dubwise shower
- Dub explosion
- Dubbing into the 1980s
- 6. Dancehall
- Roots Tradition, the Roots Radics and Barrington Levy
- Deejay dominance
- Dance pon the riddim
- Henry 'Junjo' Lawes rules the dancehall
- Prince Jammy
- Sugar Minott
- Sly and Robbie
- Channel One and Joe Gibbs
- Worries in the dance: more producers join the crowd
- 7. Ragga
- The birth of ragga
- King Jammy
- Jammy's first rivals
- Gussie Clarke
- Jammy's employees go it alone
- Donovan Germain
- Ragga sing a hit song
- Deejay confrontation
- 8. Rasta renaissance
- Bobo dread deejays, chanters and singers
- 9. Reggae in Britain
- Early sounds 1954-74
- Roots, rock, reggae, UK style
- Lovers rock
- From deejays to ragga
- The roots revival
- 10. Reggae in the USA
- US reggae takes root
- NY dancehall and ragga
- 11. African reggae
- The music of an island crosses a continent
- Glossary
- A Jamaican chronology
- Books, magazines and Web sites
- Index
