Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican MusicUniv. Press of Mississippi, 2001 - 302 pages In "Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music" Swami Anand Prahlad looks at the contexts and origins of these proverbs, using them as a cultural sheet music toward understanding the history of Jamaican culture, Rastafari religion, and the music that isthat culture's worldwide voice. |
Table des matières
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| xiii | |
Culture and Ideology A Contextual Frame | xxiii |
Personas and Rhetorical Aesthetics | 28 |
Proverbs in Jamaican Society | 66 |
Proverbs and the Rhetorical Strategies of Address in Reggae Discourse | 108 |
Proverbs of the Itals | 135 |
Proverbs of Bob Robert Nesta Marley OM | 166 |
List of Major Proverb Users | 210 |
Interview with Keith Porter | 213 |
List of Proverbs by the Itals and Bob Marley by Album and Song | 222 |
Proverb Index | 230 |
Notes | 271 |
References | 275 |
Index | 287 |
Partial Discography | 203 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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