Natural Mysticism
Natural Mysticism Kwame Dawes speaks for all those for whom reggae is a major part of life. Dawes argues that in the rise of roots reggae in the 1970s, Jamaica produced a form which was both wholly…
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Natural Mysticism
Kwame Dawes speaks for all those for whom reggae is a major part of life. 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 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 finds in reggae's international appeal more than just an encouraging example. He contrasts this with the mainstream of Caribbean literature which, whilst anticolonial in sentiment was frequently conservative and colonial in form. In the work of artists such as Don Drummond, Bob Marley, Winston Rodney and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, he finds a complex
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