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The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae Michael Garnice

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae By Michael Garnice

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae by Michael Garnice


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The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ roots, dancehall and more.

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae Summary

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told Through its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten by Michael Garnice

The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ roots, dancehall and more. It opens with an exceptionally comprehensive brief history of reggae. This is followed by 52 chapters, each devoted to in-depth descriptions of the greatest songs for a particular artist or style. Over 750 great songs are detailed, and many more are discussed. More than 200 of reggae's stars, cult artists, one-hit wonders and forgotten greats are profiled, encompassing the music's full six decade span. Many of the songs and artists receive their overdue first coverage in print. The seven chapters on Bob Marley describe every one of his more than 600 recordings, his 200 best songs receiving detailed profiles. Well written, insightful and engaging, The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae is more than an invaluable buyer's guide and more than a comprehensive history. It's a love letter to reggae that's joy to read. It's the one essential book for any reggae fan, and is interesting and accessible for anyone who enjoys reading about music.

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae Reviews

'This is a well-written, accessible, and enjoyable tour de force of Jamaican reggae. I found it informed, thoughtful, but written with a light touch.' Chris Partridge, Lancaster University

About Michael Garnice

Michael Garnice is best known for his groundbreaking early reggae website www.mentomusic.com and his writing about Bob Marley for Reggae Beat Magazine. He lives in New York City and writes for a number of reggae websites and magazines.

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. Jamaica's History of Great Records 4. Great Songs From The Golden-age of Mento Singles 5. Count Lasher 6. Chin's Calypso Sextet 7. Great Jamaican R&B 8. The Skatalites 9. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 1: Ska and More At Studio One 10. Prince Buster 11. More Great Ska Songs 12. Great Treasure Isle Rock Steady Songs 13. Great Rock Steady From Other Studios 14. Desmond Dekker & The Aces with The Dynamites at Beverly's 15. Toots & The Maytals 16. The Ethiopians 17. Great Studio One Rock Steady and Reggae Instrumentals 18. More Great Studio One Rock Steady and Pre-Roots Reggae Songs 19. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 2: Self-produced Singles In Their Middle Period 20. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 3: The JAD Productions In Their Middle Period 21. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 4: An LP Produced by Leslie Kong In Their Middle Period 22. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 5: Produced by Lee Perry In Their Middle Period 23. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 6: Work With Sundry Other Producers In Their Middle Period 24. More Great Early Reggae 25. Jimmy Cliff 26. Nora Dean 27. Augustus Pablo 28. Lee Perry Before The Black Ark 29. Lee Perry And The Black Ark Sound 30. Junior Murvin at The Black Ark 31. The Congos At The Black Ark And Elsewhere 32. More Great Dub 33. Great Mento-Reggae by Stanley Beckford and Others 34. Great Mento After The Golden-Age 35. More Great Reggae Instrumentals 36. The Abyssinians 37. Burning Spear 38. More Great Nyabinghi and Nyabinghi-Reggae Songs 39. Dennis Brown 40. Gregory Isaacs 41. Black Uhuru and Michael Rose 42. More Great Sly & Robbie Songs 43. Black Slate 44. Steel Pulse 45. More Great Roots Reggae 46. Big Youth 47. More Great DJ Songs 48. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Part 7: The Internationally Released LPs 49. Bunny Wailer, After The Wailers 50. Peter Tosh, After The Wailers 51. Great Dub Poetry 52. Great Jamaica Jazz 53. Barrington Levy and The Birth of Dancehall 54. Johnny Osbourne 55. More Great Dancehall 56. Coda: More Great Songs, But Difficult to Categorize

Additional information

GOR013115529
9781781790953
1781790957
The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told Through its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten by Michael Garnice
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Equinox Publishing Ltd
2016-03-18
614
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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