Dread Talk
Subtitle: The Language of Rastafari
Edition: Rev Sub edition
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780773520301
Subjects: Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Pidgin And Creole Languages; Foreign Language Study; English; Language; Linguistics; History and criticism; Miscellaneous; Creole dialects, English; Jamaica; Jamaican poetry; Ras Tafari movement
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.