NATURAL MYSTICISM: TOWARDS A NEW REGGAE AESTHETIC By Kwame Dawes **Excellent**
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- ISBN-10
- 1900715228
- Book Title
- Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic
- ISBN
- 9781900715225
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press, The Limited
ISBN-10
1900715228
ISBN-13
9781900715225
eBay Product ID (ePID)
546817
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Natural Mysticism : Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-131499
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Volumes
5 vols.
Dewey Decimal
810.9/9729
Synopsis
The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, "Natural Mysticism" shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art, and offers in depth analyzes of leading reggae artists such as Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry and Bob Marley., The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, Natural Mysticism shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art, and offers in depth analyzes of leading reggae artists such as Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry and Bob Marley., Kwame Dawes speaks for all those for whom reggae is a major part of life. He describes how reggae has been central to his sense of selfhood, his consciousness of place and society in Jamaica, his development as a writer - and why the singer Ken Boothe should be inseparably connected to his discovery of the erotic. Natural Mysticism is also a work of acute cultural analysis. Dawes argues that in the rise of roots reggae in the 1970s, Jamaica produced a form which was both wholly of the region and universal in its concerns. He contrasts this with the mainstream of Caribbean literature which, whilst anticolonial in sentiment was frequently conservative and colonial in form. Dawes finds in reggae's international appeal more than just an encouraging example. In the work of artists such as Don Drummond, Bob Marley, Winston Rodney and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, he finds a complex aesthetic whose inner structure points in a genuinely contemporary and postcolonial direction. He identifies this aesthetic as being both original and eclectic, as feeling free to borrow, but transforming what it takes in a subversive way. He sees it as embracing both the traditional and the postmodern, the former in the complex subordination of the lyric, melodic and rhythmic elements to the collective whole, and the latter in the dubmaster's deconstructive play with presences and absences. Above all, he shows that it is an aesthetic which unites body, emotions and intellect and brings into a single focus the political, the spiritual and the erotic. In constructing this reggae aesthetic, Kwame Dawes both creates a rationale for the development of his own writing and brings a new and original critical method to the discussion of the work of other contemporary Caribbean authors. Natural Mysticism has the rare merit of combining rigorous theoretical argument with a personal narrative which is often wickedly funny. Here is a paradigm shifting work of Caribbean cultural and literary criticism with the added bonus of conveying an infectious enthusiasm for reggae which will drive readers back to their own collections or even to go out and extend them! "Dawes is an ideal grammarian for the reggae aesthetic, his voice the estuary where his energies as a poet, professor and one-time musician are poured. He bears a gift, rarer than it should be in academia, for intellectually processing his subject and still yielding enlivening writing..." Michael Kuelker, The Beat Kwame Dawes is widely acknowledged as the foremost Caribbean poet of the post-Walcott generation. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Poet In Residence and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.
LC Classification Number
PR9205.O5D39 1999
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