Stephen A. King, P. RenAÂ e Foste

Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Who changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into "Come to Jamaica and feel all right"? p When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastafarian spreading beach towels for American tourists?p Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, iReggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control/i traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists.pVisitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica's poor. Rastafarians were once the 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.pThis book attempts to explain how the Jamaican establishment's strategies of social control influenced the evolutionary direction of both t

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781604730036
• ISBN-10: 160473003X
• Artikelnr.: 23361486

Autorenporträt

Stephen A. King is chairperson and professor of communication at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He has written extensively about rhetoric, public memory, and cultural tourism and is author of Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control and I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta and coauthor (with Roger Davis Gatchet) of Terror and Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement, all published by University Press of Mississippi.