Dread Talk
Subtitle: the Language of Rastafari
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: July 22, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789768125118
Subjects: Cultural studies; Indigenous peoples; Language & Linguistics
First sentence: The history and sociology of the Rastafari in Jamaica have been the subject of enough literature2 to legitimize Rex Nettleford's comment that the movement is "one of the most significant phenomena to emerge out of the modem history and sociology of Plantation America, that New World culturesphere of which Jamaica and the Caribbean are a part.