What song lyrics say about Jamaican life, Rastafari religion, and reggae music history
Swami Anand Prahlad, an associate professor of English and anthropology at the University of Missouri at Columbia
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xvii
The Original Man
Culture and Ideology; A Contextual Frame
1
(31)
Jah Message to Preach
Personas and Rhetorical Aesthetics
32
(38)
No Cup No Mash
Proverbs in Jamaican Society
70
(42)
New Brooms Sweep Clean
Proverbs and the Rhetorical Strategies of Address in Reggae Discourse
112
(27)
Still Water Run Deep
Proverbs of the Itals
139
(31)
Fire, Corn and Pots
Proverbs of Bob (Robert Nesta) Marley, O.M.
170
(37)
Appendix 1 Partial Discography
207
(7)
Appendix 2 List of Major Proverb Users
214
(3)
Appendix 3 Interview with Keith Porter
217
(9)
Appendix 4 List of Proverbs by the Itals and Bob Marley, by Album and Song
226
(8)
Appendix 5 Proverb Index
234
(41)
Notes
275
(4)
References
279
(12)
Index
291
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