REGGAE The Rough Guide

Steve Barrow, Peter Dalton

ISBN 10: 1858282470 / ISBN 13: 9781858282473

Published by Rough Guides, London, 1997

About this Item

Very Good+ in wraps. Light creasing on panel corners. ; 384 pages.

Seller Inventory # 328011

Bibliographic Details

• Title: REGGAE The Rough Guide
• Publisher: Rough Guides, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858282470
• ISBN 13: 9781858282473
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition; Second Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

The complete guide to one of the most influential forms of music in the world, The Rough Guide to Reggae leaves no stone unturned when it comes to profiling such stars as Buju Banton, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and, of course, Bob Marley. From Ragga to Dub to Ska, all forms of the genre are covered.

Reviews

This is an inexpensive yet near-comprehensive way to educate oneself about reggae music. Incorporating the same let's-cut-to-the-chase style that has characterized the Rough Guide travel books, as well as other music guides on rock, opera, and classical music, this guide to the hugely popular Jamaican music is profusely illustrated and well indexed. The authors have been involved in reggae for over 20 years and are able to survey the genre's many aspects succinctly. They consider such subgenre categories as mento, ska, rude-boy music, and rocksteady and devote chapters to African reggae, reggae in Britain, and reggae in America. Most important is the direction that the guide gives to the best CD or vinyl sources of reggae. Great photos and album covers (all in black and white) liberally pepper the text. If a library feels compelled to stock only one title on reggae, one would be hard pressed to beat the price or content of this book.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston
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