The ultimate guide to great reggae
Subtitle: the complete story of reggae told through its greatest songs, famous and forgotten
By: Michael Garnice
Series: Popular music history; Popular music history
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9781781790953
Subjects: Reviews; Discography; Analysis, appreciation; Sound recordings; Reggae musicians; Reggae music; History and criticism
Description: Styles covered include Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ, roots, dancehall, ragga, mento, and more. Also includes some reggae of expatriate Jamaican artists living in the UK and from reggae bands that consisted primarily of Jamaicans but included members from other backgrounds (such as Steel Pulse and Black Slate).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 589) and indexes (index of names; index of songs).
Table of contents: title: Jamaica's history of great records; title: Great songs from the golden age of mento singles; title: Count Lasher; title: Chin's Calypso Sextet; title: Great Jamaican R&B; title: The Skatalites; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 1: Ska and more at Studio One; title: More great ska songs; title: Prince Buster; title: Great Treasure Isle rock steady songs; title: Great rock steady from other studios; title: Desmond Dekker & the Aces with The Dynamites at Beverly's; title: Toots & the Maytals; title: The Ethiopians; title: Great Studio One rock steady and reggae instrumentals; title: More great Studio One rock steady and pre-roots reggae songs; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 2: Self-produced singles in their middle period; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 3: The JAD productions in their middle period; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 4: An LP produced by Leslie Kong in their middle period; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 5: Produced by Lee Perry in their middle period; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 6: Work with sundry other producers in their middle period; title: More great early reggae; title: Jimmy Cliff; title: Nora Dean; title: Augustus Pablo; title: Lee Perry before the Black Ark; title: Lee Perry and the Black Ark sound; title: Junior Murvin at the Black Ark; title: The Congos at the Black Ark and elsewhere; title: More great dub; title: Great mento-reggae by Stanley Beckford and others; title: Great mento after the golden age; title: More great reggae instrumentals; title: The Abyssinians; title: Burning Spear; title: More great Nyabinghi and Nyabinghi-reggae songs; title: Dennis Brown; title: Gregory Isaacs; title: Black Uhuru and Michael Rose; title: More great Sly & Robbie songs; title: Black Slate; title: Steel Pulse; title: More great roots reggae; title: Big Youth; title: More great DJ songs; title: Bob Marley & the Wailers, part 7: The internationally released LPs; title: Bunny Wailer, after The Wailers; title: Peter Tosh, after The Wailers; title: Great dub poetry; title: Great Jamaica jazz; title: Barrington Levy and the birth of dancehall; title: Johnny Osbourne; title: More great dancehall; title: Coda. More great songs, but difficult to categorize.