Rock It Come over: The Folk Music of Jamaica

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Author(s): Olive Lewin
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 351

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
I: Introduction......Page 20
1. The Making of a Musician......Page 22
2. Slavery: Old Souls in a New World......Page 42
3. Conflicting Concepts of Wealth......Page 58
II: Non-Cult Traditional Jamaican Music......Page 72
4. Music for Work, Play and the Spirit......Page 74
5. Mento and Other Styles for Dance, Entertainment and Ceremony......Page 122
III: Cults and Cult Music in Jamaica......Page 164
6. Maroon, Tambo, Goombeh, Ettu, Nago......Page 166
7. Revivalism and Rastafarianism......Page 208
IV: Kumina and Queenie Kennedy......Page 232
8. The Kumina Cult......Page 234
9. Queenie Kennedy: Her Life......Page 274
10. Queenie Kennedy: Her Teachings and Her Work......Page 296
11. Conclusion......Page 324
References......Page 334
B......Page 342
C......Page 343
D......Page 344
E......Page 345
H......Page 346
J......Page 347
K......Page 348
M......Page 349
P......Page 351
S......Page 352
T......Page 353
Z......Page 354