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Jamaican Popular Music, from Mento to Dancehall Reggae	Book flyer (html)
A Bibliographic Guide By John Gray Price: $99.95 Binding: Cloth ISBN: 978-0-9844134-1-6 455 pages African Diaspora Press Pub. Date: Mar. 2011 SUBJECTS Music -- Ethnomusicology Music -- Popular & Folk Performing Arts Area Studies -- Latin American & Caribbean Studies Ethnic Studies -- Black/African Diaspora Studies SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series SERIES NUMBER: 2

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"...the first comprehensive guide to resources on Jamaican popular music. Offers a wealth of resources for the student and scholar at any level." -- Latin American Music Review

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Despite its global popularity, reggae, and the myriad Jamaican popular music forms which led up to its creation, has long lacked a bibliographic resource that could assist its legion of fans, students and scholars. Until now.

Based on 15 years of research Jamaican Popular Music offers nearly 3700 entries on the evolution of the island’s commercial music scene from the calypso-like mento of the late-1940s and '50s to the roots reggae revolution of the 1970s and the dancehall boom of the 1980s and beyond. It also provides in-depth coverage of the music’s diffusion to more than 51 countries abroad along with a biographical section documenting the careers of some 800 individual artists, producers, dancers, filmmakers, and others. Sources range from fanzine interviews and newspaper reportage to scholarly theses and journal articles published in Jamaica, Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. Much of this material is cited here for the first time based on the author’s analytic indexing of some 150 arts, music, humanities and social science journals.

The result is a ground-breaking effort offering insights into all aspects of Jamaican popular music and its local, regional and transnational impact.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Introduction I.    Cultural History and the Arts II.   Popular Music in Jamaica          General Works          Genre Studies              Dancehall/Ragga              Dub              Dub Poetry              Jazz              Mento              Rastafarian Music              Reggae                 Reggae Sunsplash             Ska and Rock Steady             Sound Systems and Deejays III.  Jamaican Music Abroad          Argentina          Australia          Austria          Barbados          Belgium          Bermuda          Brazil          Canada          Chile          Costa Rica          Cote d'Ivoire          Cuba          Finland          France          French Antilles          French Guiana          Germany          Ghana          Great Britain and Wales          Indonesia          Israel          Italy          Japan          Malawi          Mali          Martinique          Mexico          Nepal          Netherlands, The          New Zealand          Nigeria          Pacific Islands          Panama          Peru          Poland          Puerto Rico          Reunion          Russia          St. Lucia          South Africa          Sri Lanka          Suriname          Sweden          Switzerland          Tahiti          Tanzania          Trinidad          Uganda          United States          Virgin Islands          Zimbabwe IV. Biographical and Critical Studies Sources Consulted Libraries and Archives Appendix I:   List of Individuals and Ensembles by Idiom/Occupation Appendix II:  List of Individuals and Ensembles by Country Author Index Subject Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is director of the Black Arts Research Center in Nyack, New York. His previous publications include African Music (1991); Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990 (1991); Blacks in Classical Music (1988); Blacks in Film and Television (1990); Black Theatre and Performance (1990); and, Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora (1989), all published by Greenwood Press.