Time and memory in reggae music: The politics of hope (Music and Society) - Softcover

Book 4 of 10: Music and Society

Daynes, Sarah

 
9781784992804: Time and memory in reggae music: The politics of hope (Music and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784992801 ISBN 13: 9781784992804
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 into 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 on a theoretical problem: the conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.

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About the Author

Sarah Daynes is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

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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 into 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 on a theoretical problem: the conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.

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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 into 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 on a theoretical problem: the conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1784992801
ISBN 13 
9781784992804
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
310

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