Author: Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Darren J. N. Middleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134624964
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings of the Rasta movement are often overshadowed by Rasta’s association with reggae music, dub, and performance poetry. Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction takes a fresh view of Rasta, considering the relationship between the artistic and religious dimensions of the movement in depth. Middleton’s analysis complements current introductions to Afro-Caribbean religions and offers an engaging example of the role of popular culture in illuminating the beliefs and practices of emerging religions. Recognizing that outsiders as well as insiders have shaped the Rasta movement since its modest beginnings in Jamaica, Middleton includes interviews with members of both groups, including: Ejay Khan, Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, Geoffrey Philp, Asante Amen, Reggae Rajahs, Benjamin Zephaniah, Monica Haim, Blakk Rasta, Rocky Dawuni, and Marvin D. Sterling.

Author: Barbara Makeda Lee
Publisher:
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Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Michael Barnett
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815633602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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In the dawn of the new African Millennium, the Rastafari movement has achieved unheralded growth and visibility since its inception more than eighty years ago. Moving beyond a pure spiritual movement, its aesthetic component has influenced cultures of the Caribbean, the United States, and others across the globe. Locating the Rastafari movement at a literal and figurative crossroad, Barnett sets out to consider the possible paths the movement will chart. Rastafari in the New Millennium covers a wide range of perspectives, focusing not only on the movement’s nuanced and complex religious ideology but also on its political philosophy, cosmology, and unique epistemology. Barry Chevannes’s essay addresses the concerns of death and repatriation, highlighting the transformative challenges these issues pose to Rastafari. Essays by Ian Boxill, Edward Te Kohu Douglas, Erin C. MacLeod, and Janet L. DeCosmo, among others, offer rich accounts of the globalization of Rastafari from New Zealand to Ethiopia, from Brazil to Nigeria. Drawing on new research and global developments, the contributors, many of whom are leading scholars in the field, reinvigorate the critical dialogue on the current state and future direction of the Rastafari movement.

Author: Barbara Blake-Hannah
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482678895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Joseph is a reggae superstar, admired by his musical peers and adored by women wherever he goes. But Joseph is also a devout, herb-smoking Rastafarian who dreams of a new life in Ethiopia. Sister Ashanti tells of Joseph's rise to international stardom, his stormy relationship with the beautiful and passionate Zueleika, his uneasy truce with the press and in particular the intrusive American journalist Sam Bergman. But for all his peaceable Rasta way of life, in certain quarters Joseph is seen as a threat. The concert that is to seal the Peace, ending gang warfare in Kingston, instead ends in the terrible moment when Joseph is shot on stage. Ashanti and her husband Peter are spirited away to Miami and Cuba, not knowing if Joseph is alive or dead, until after many adventures, the friends find themselves reunited in Shashemane and in the mystical Emmanuel.

Author: Barbara Makeda Blake-Hannah
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Jamaican-born Barbara Makeda Blake-Hannah has been a Rastafarian since the 1970s and is amember of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. As well as JOSEPH - A RASTA REGGAE FABLE, a novel inspired by the life of Bob Marley, Hannah wrote 'Rastafari - The New Creation', the first text on Rastafari to be written by a practicing member of the faith. Journalist, broadcaster and producer/director of 8 films, she began by working with her father's news magazine, then in 1964 she moved to England and became Britain's 1st Black TV journalist on Thames TV's daily TODAY programme. Returning to Jamaica in 1972, she has worked in a range of media and also in the Office of the Prime Minister under Michael Manley and Edward Seaga. She served as an Independent Senator in Parliament from 1984-1987 and has lectured on Jamaican culture at Universities around the world.

Author: Indiana Robinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387129333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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People (Volume 1) Jamaican topics covered in the book include our slave fore-fathers, our national heroes, our political and religious leaders, our educators, our youths, our nurses and doctors, our lawyers, our journalists and authors, our beauty queens, our talented athletes, our vendors, and our Jamericans and JAGlobians. Naturally, our multi-talented brothers and sisters are saluted including those still here and those who have since departed to the great beyond. So dear readers, enjoy the mind "triggers" and heart-wrenching "diggers" you will find in this book honouring the 55th year of celebrating Jamaica's independence and the tantalizing trip down memory lane with this unofficial reference/resource guide by your side.

Author: Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405061438
Category : Rastafari movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Joseph is a reggae superstar, admired by his musical peers and adored by women wherever he goes. But, Joseph is also a devout, herb-smoking Rastafarian who dreams of a new life in Ethiopia. Sister Ashanti chronicles Joseph's rise to international stardom. But, for all his peaceable Rasta way of life, in certain quarters Joseph is seen as a threat.

Author: Masimba Musodza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460974834
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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First published in 1996, and hailed as something of a classic work of Rastafarian literature, this anthology explores in eleven short stories the reality of Rastafarian life in Zimbabwe. Kudos: "The Man who turned into a Rastafarian is an extremely interesting book, the kind of book you wish had not finished when you turn the back cover. Barbara Blake-Hannah, Author: 'Rastafari - The New Creation, and 'Joseph - a Rasta Reggae Fable', Jamaica. Srating 9 out of 10... This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh and cry while they read, Sbutthose of you into Reggae and Rasta culture you will be in for a real treat. This is a book that no Reggae library would be complete without.. This is the kind of book you will want to give to the person that wonders why you listen to that bloody music all the time Lance Naphtali Green, Twelve Tribes of Israel and Rastainoz.com, Australia. S..from the minute I started reading this book I could not put it down. Mary Holden, aka SistaMarydread, Rastaites.com, United Kingdom

Author: Gerald Hausman
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN: 9781429997744
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A sacred text to Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians, The Kebra Nagast tells of the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and their son Menyelik, who hid the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. This edition of the Ethiopian text is edited by Gerald Hausman, with an introduction by Ziggy Marley.