Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control
ISBN-10
1578064899
ISBN-13
9781578064892
Category
History
Pages
173
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Univ. Press of Mississippi
Authors
Stephen A. King, Barry T. Bays, P. Renée Foster

Description

"Visitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica's poor. Rastafarians were once a target of police harassment and public condemnation. Now the music is a marketing tool, and the Rastafarians are no longer a "violent counterculture" but an important symbol of Jamaica's new cultural heritage.".

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