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Women in Jamaican Music
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Heather Augustyn
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-26 - Publisher: McFarland

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As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women
Women in Jamaican Music
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Heather Augustyn
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-21 - Publisher: McFarland

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As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women
Songbirds
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Heather Augustyn
Categories: Calypso (Music)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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In a music world that was rougher than rough, where men took monikers of royalty and machismo like Duke and King and Lord; where boastful ringleaders fired guns
Island Gospel
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Melvin L. Butler
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outs
This is Reggae Music
Language: en
Pages: 608
Authors: Lloyd Bradley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:

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A history of Jamaica's contribution to world culture--reggae--traces the history of the form from African rhythms to the slums of Kingston and the international