A Reader in African-Jamaican Music Dance and Religion

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Jamaica’s wealthy culture is known across the world; and each and every aspect of this culture has been influenced by Jamaica’s African heritage. From speech to dress, and spirituality to dance, from food to folklore and from music to art and religion, African retentions from the time of slavery have grow to be more than preserved aspects of Jamaica’s past; African traditions have grow to be part and parcel of Jamaican culture. On this Reader, Coester and Bender have compiled one of the most essential ethnographic work by noted researchers which, even supposing up to now published, have been exceptionally difficult to get right of entry to by the growing community of scholars of African-Caribbean and Jamaican studies. Several seminal articles on aspects of African-Jamaican culture are included On this wealthy and valuable collection that describes and analyses the elements that make up a distinctive African-Jamaican ethos. Includes works from: Walter Jekyll – Astley Clerk – Helen H. Roberts – Ivy Baxter – Sylvia Wynter – Judith Bettelheim – Cheryl Ryman – Kenneth Bilby – Monica Schuler – Elizabeth Pigou – Martha Warren Beckwith – George Eaton Simpson – Edward Seaga – Barry Chevannes – Pamela O’Gorman – Garth White – Laura Tanna – Olive Lewin – Adina Henry – Laura Tanna with interviews by Hazel Ramsay – Maureen Warner-Lewis – Kenneth M. Bilby and Fu-Kiau kia Bunseki – Hazel Carter – Abiodun Adetugbo – Donald Hogg – Douglas R.A. Mack – Verena Reckord – Kenneth Bilby and Eliott Leib

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