{"product_id":"time-and-memory-in-reggae-music-the-politics-of-hope-9781784992804","title":"Time and Memory in Reggae Music: The Politics of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I: A study in elective affinity: music, religion and memory\u003cbr\u003e1. Reggae and Rastafari: a history\u003cbr\u003e2. Interpreting songs: notes on methodology\u003cbr\u003e3. Analysis of reggae charts, 1968–2000\u003cbr\u003e4. The construction of a musical memory in reggae music\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Remembering the past\u003cbr\u003e5. Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations\u003cbr\u003e6. The construction of a religious chain of memory\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Revealing the future\u003cbr\u003e7. Messianism, between past and future\u003cbr\u003e8. Hope and redemption\u003cbr\u003e9. The end of the world as future-present\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: From revelation to revolution\u003cbr\u003e10. The construction of a sociopolitical memory of liberation\u003cbr\u003e11. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique\u003cbr\u003e12. Resistance and revolution\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e13. Time and memory\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042320351575,"sku":"9781784992804","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-and-memory-in-reggae-music-the-politics-of-hope-9781784992804","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}