Time and memory in reggae music: The politics of hope

Time and memory in reggae music: The politics of hope
ISBN-10
1847796923
ISBN-13
9781847796929
Category
Music
Pages
382
Language
English
Published
2013-07-19
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
Sarah Daynes

Description

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.

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