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The natural mystics : Marley, Tosh, and Wailer / Colin Grant.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML385 .G78 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Colin, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Biography.
- Reggae musicians.
- Jamaica.
- Marley, Bob.
- Tosh, Peter.
- Wailer, Bunny.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton, 2011.
- Summary:
- Traces the history of the Wailers from their upbringing in the slums of Kingston to their first recordings and superstardom through the lens of Jamaican politics, heritage, race, religion, and the cultural revolution taking place in the 1970s.
- Contents:
- No country for old men
- Negro aroused
- Cold ground for bed, rock for pillow
- Opportunity knocks
- Trouble in mind
- Nuff respec'
- And princes shall come out of Africa
- On becoming Rasta
- Battering down sentence
- Let it burn
- Eat the fish but spit out the bones
- Vow of Nazarites
- Under heavy manners
- How long will they kill our prophets?
- Time for sufferer drive big car.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393081176
- 0393081176
- OCLC:
- 668194864
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