Redemption Songs: How Bob Marley's Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism

Redemption Songs: How Bob Marley's Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism
ISBN-10
1897426879
ISBN-13
9781897426876
Series
Redemption Songs
Category
Music
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2016
Author
Jon Tattrie

Description

Redemption Songs tells the extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley's greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia. It opens with Marley's live acoustic performance of Redemption Song at the end of his life, and reveals that the core lyric comes from a speech Marcus Garvey delivered in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1937. The line "We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery" springboards the reader into the book's ambitions. The author explores why Marley so revered Garvey, and, in doing so, looks at the roots of Rastafarianism and ideas about race.

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