Bass culture. La musica dalla Giamaica: ska, rocksteady, roots reggae, dub e dancehall
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Bass Culture è la storia del Reggae, dalle sue origini e dai sound System degli anni cinquanta, fino al suo straordinario trionfo degli anni settanta e all'attuale generazione di artisti che stanno cercando di trovare nuove strade musicali. La vicenda spazia dai ghetti di Kingston alle amene colline dell'entroterra giamaicano, fino ai club e ai negozi di dischi di Londra e Birmingham. Lloyd Bradley ci racconta la vera storia: la politica e la cultura, i produttori e gli artisti, gli eroi e i banditi, ma soprattutto la musica.
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- Pagine: 393
- Data di uscita: 05-07-2008
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This is what you call a book about musical genre. Simply put, this is PhD in reggae. There are so many beautiful insights from legends such as Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff, Sly Dunbar, Dennis Bovell and others. Above all, it takes you behind the scene, revealing the connection between music and econom Leggi tutto
A comprehensive history of Jamaican music from the 1930s approximately. It intertwines politics & culture of the time fluidly to culminate in a very holistic telling of life in Jamaica with music at its heart. Recommend to anyone interested in the meaning behind reggae. 5/5
Bass Culture is an extensive history of reggae and the genres that preceded it - ska, rock-steady, and dub. Bass Culture covers reggae's roots in Jamaica as well as its history in the US and UK, hitting on all the major players - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, and of course Bob Mar Leggi tutto
If you're interested enough in Reggae and Jamaica to read 500+ pages, this book is everything and anything you'll want. Meticulous attention to detail without sacrificing any of the excitement and turmoil that came out of the birth of Jamaica as an independent nation and reggae as one of its greates Leggi tutto
Thorough and serious in its treatment of Reggae, yet highly accessible and almost conversational in tone. Took me a long time to read because I don't have a History Brain. A very impressive feat of research and truly required reading for anyone interested in any of reggae's subgenres or the sociopol Leggi tutto
The best music book I've ever read, it's a extremely well written story of Jamaica's musical and sociopolitical history since right before independence up to the end of last century. At no point the book gets boring thanks to the narration and the eloquent interviewees. If I was forced to point some Leggi tutto
Enjoying this authoritative but readable account of Jamaican music, starting with the sound systems of the late 1950's ; full of insight and it will drive me back to the music.Have just got to the point in the narrative pre-Marley,where ska morphs into rocksteady,and how the music gradually shook of Leggi tutto
Very good cultural history of ska-rocksteady-reggae-digitalJamaicanstuffuptothenineties. Wonderfully positive ethos - the artists Bradley admires get plenty of room; the ones he despises just get a brief mention or are omitted. Would much rather read someone who has committed views like Bradley than Leggi tutto
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