Book Reviews

EXCERPT FROM BOOK OF MEMORY

Book of Memory is the published oral history of Jamaican Rastafari elder Prince Williams, who worked with author-educator Michael Kuelker over a period of seven years in Jamaica to produce the text.

CALABASH LITERARY FESTIVAL 2004

Literary Fest Flourishes on Jamaica's South Coast

The New Bone to Pick from Ellis Cose

Roger Mais’ Brother Man: Knotty Dread Steps Forward Again

by Michael Kuelker

MILKING BOB, CONTINUED

Rita Marley with Hettie Jones, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley (Hyperion, May 2004)

Hank Bordowitz, ed., Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader (Da Capo Press/ Perseus, July 2004)

book review essay by Gregory Stephens

BOB MARLEY & PETER TOSH, Get Up! Stand Up!
(Diary of a Reggaeophile)
by Fikisha Cumbo
[Brooklyn: CACE International, 2002]  

book review essay by Gregory Stephens

One Love: Life With Bob Marley and the Wailers
Words & Photographs by Lee Jaffe; Introduction & Interview by Roger Steffens

book review essay by Gregory Stephens

Taj Mahal: An Autobiography of a Bluesman
[Sanctuary Pub Ltd]
by Taj Mahal and Stephen Foer

Taj Mahal's life, as told to Stephen Foer, is nestled on the pages of this book. Mahal, the man behind blues music, is giving his fans and those who don't know him a view into his life.

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Caribbean, The Islands
[Macmillan Caribbean]
by Donald Nausbaum

Donald Nausbaum is a 49-year-old photographer who currently lives in Toronto with his family. He has been a professional photographer since 1985, working for a number of magazines and journals including many of the Caribbean in-flight magazines. He has specialized in travel photography and has photographed many parts of the world. His work has been on display for two public shows. His first book: Caribbean The Islands, has just been released by Macmillan Caribbean, and he is now working on his second which will focus on Cuba.

Read an interview with photographer Nausbaum here

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica

[Duke University Press]
by Norman Stolzoff

Norman Stolzoff, author of "Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica," spent 1994 in Jamaica researching sound system culture. He talks to Jahworks.org’s Laura Gardner about the vibrancy and complexity of the culture, the origins of some of the controversial dancehall lyrics, the nature of the sound clash event, and his challenges and triumphs in Jamaica.

click here for full interview with author Norman Stolzoff (interview conducted by Laura Gardner)

On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley

[Cambridge University Press]
by Gregory Stephens

“I don’t think enough people look at Bob Marley’s European audience and ask: what is that all about?” Gregory Stephens tells me one sunny day outside of his El Cerrito home, “And what does that mean about cultural ownership?”

click here for full interview with author Gregory Stephens (interview conducted by Laura Gardner)

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