Bass culture: when reggae was king

✍ Scribed by Bradley, Lloyd

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2001;2009
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica, from colonial island to troubled independence, and Jamaicans, from Kingston to London.

✦ Table of Contents

Part One First session: boogie in my bones
music is my occupation
we are rolling
message from the king
train to Skaville
strange country
what a world. Part Two Simmer down: soul style
dance crasher
mix it up
you can get it if you really want. Part Three Studio kinda cloudy: pressure drop
wake the town, tell the people
dubwise situation
dreadlocks in moonlight
ah fi we dis
trench town rock
warrior charge
sipple out deh. Part Four Fist to fist days gone: ring the alarm
kid's play
Johnny dollar
healing of a nation.

✦ Subjects

Black & Asian Studies;Jamaicans;Jamaicans--Great Britain;Reggae music;Social & Cultural History;;Reggae music--History and criticism;Reggae music--Jamaica--History and criticism;;Criticism, interpretation, etc;Reggae music -- History and criticism;Reggae music -- Jamaica -- History and criticism;Jamaicans -- Great Britain;Great Britain;Jamaica