Time and Memory in Reggae Music The Politics

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music constructs a musical, religious and socio-political memory in rupture with dominant models is vividly illustrated by the lyrics themselves. How is the past remembered in the present? How does remembering the past allow for imagining the future? How does collective memory participate into the historical grounding of collective identity? What is the relationship between tradition and revolution, between the recollection of the past and the imagination of the future, between passivity and action? Ultimately, this case study of ‘memory at work’ opens up on a theoretical problem: the conceptualization of time and its relationship with memory.

Sarah Daynes is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

List of tables * List of boxes * List of figures * Acknowledgements * Introduction * Part I. A study in elective affinity: music, religion and memory * 1. Reggae and Rastafari: a history * 2. Interpreting songs: notes on methodology * 3. Analysis of reggae charts, 1968–2000 * 4. The construction of a musical memory in reggae music * Part II. Remembering the past * 5. Slavery and the diaspora: temporal and spatial articulations * 6. The construction of a religious chain of memory * Part III. Revealing the future * 7. Messianism, between past and future * 8. Hope and redemption * 9. The end of the world as future-present * Part IV. From revelation to revolution * 10. The construction of a sociopolitical memory of liberation * 11. Rhetoric of oppression and social critique * 12. Resistance and revolution * Part V. Conclusion * 13. Time and memory * Bibliography * Index *

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Time and Memory in Reggae Music The Politics of Hope

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