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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"reggae"”.
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"Hear Dem Cryin:" Rastafari and Framing Processes in Reggae Music
… their grievances to potential sympathizers. Reggae music is the most popular vehicle for the Rastafarians to disperse their world-view. This study explores how reggae music serves certain social movement functions for the Rastafarian movement. I seek to show that reggae music is indeed …
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Mapping the beat, beating the map : the religious work of Hip Hop, Reggae and Kwaito in South Africa
… the popular musical forms of Hip Hop, Kwaito and Reggae in South Africa are contributing to the forging of a global African identity which challenges Eurocentric conceptions but also inserts an implicit response into recent debates about the limitations of an essentialist, Afrocentric paradigm. …
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Between Two Giant Sounds: Jamaican Politics, Nationalism, and Musical Culture in Transition, 1974-1984
… in its political structure in the Cold War era. Reggae as a popular form, developed in the context of Jamaica's history of colonialism and slavery, as well as the island's development as an independent nation within the African Diaspora. Michael Manley's policy of democratic socialism leading to …
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"In the Ghetto, Life no easy for we": The Construction and Negotiation of Identity in Ajegunle Raga.
… the historical evolution of Ajegunle Raga, a reggae form developed within an urban ghetto in Lagos called Ajegunle and the construction and negotiation of identities therein. The research further argues that Ajegunle Raga is a home-grown oppositional music subculture that draws inspiration …
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
… in Grenada, and their influences on calypso, reggae, Latin music, jazz, blues, gospel, soul music, and other sub-genres in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
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Towards a Decolonial Caribbean Reparations Movement
… 1970s; the project underlines the centrality of reggae in that process by examining the music of Bob Marley. I further extend my argument by addressing the legal framing of the reparations campaign through my application of Third World approaches to international law as a decolonial method. To …
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Children's Songs in Nawfija Community, Southeastern Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective
… addition, localized English songs, afro-beats, reggae, and hip-hop, are used when looking after children. The research discusses three ideologies surrounding these Indigenous songs, two of which, (i) and (ii), may have contributed to their decline. The ideologies are (i) English equates to …
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“A riddim resisting against the system”: Bob Marley in Aotearoa
… adapting it to create new hybrid forms of local reggae. The main emphasis is on the extent to which the political messages in Marley’s music resonated with local protest movements. The music became an integral part of Maori land marches and occupations, the 1981 anti-Springbok Tour movement, and …
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Poetry as a performing art in the English-speaking Caribbean.
… Walter Rodney, to the process of decolonization. Reggae music, the principal creative response to the dynamics of the period both in terms of lyrics and rhythmic tension, infuses the work of Michael Smith, Cku Onuora, Mutabaruka and Erian Meeks examined in this study. Chapter four illustrates the …
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Rastaman vibration: The rhetoric of Bob Marley
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Music, musicians, and social advocacy: Environmental conservation, knowledge-sharing, and cultivating a culture of wisdom in northern Tanzania
Popular music and musicians in Tanzania play an important role in identifying and confronting a variety of locally relevant concerns. Prior research in the region has focused especially on the relationship between hip hop and social problems such as poverty and drug-use among urban youth. While …