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Time and memory in reggae music
eBook - The politics of hope, Music and Society
ISBN/EAN: 9781847796929
Umbreit-Nr.: 1576042
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.07.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- 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 the future? How does collective memory participate in the historical grounding of collective identity? What is the relationship between tradition and revolution, between the recollection of the past and the imagination of the future, between passivity and action? Ultimately, this case study of memory at work opens up a theoretical problem: the conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.
- Kurztext
- On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.
- Autorenportrait
- Sarah Daynes is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro