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Author Bilby, Kenneth M., 1953-

Title Words of our mouth, meditations of our heart : pioneering musicians of ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dancehall / Kenneth Bilby
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]

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Description xxiv, 230 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Series Music/interview
Music:interview.
Contents Lammy Palmer and Emmanuel Palmer -- Alerth Bedasse -- Arthur "Bubby" Robinson -- Cecil "Prince Buster" Campbell -- Owen Gray -- Jerome "Jah Jerry" Haynes -- Evan Lloyd "Richard Ace" Richards -- Ivanhoe Wilson and members of the Zion Hill Congregation -- George "Bunny" Dudley -- Rafael Griffiths and members of the Congregation of the African Reform Church of God -- Lloyd "Bro", Baba Job" Clayton -- J. McLaughlin ; Donald Manning -- Herbert Armsby -- Winston Grennan -- Linford "Hux" Brown -- Edgar Reid -- David "Lapi" Powell -- Neville Baker, Lucille Forbes and company -- Vira Brown -- Derrick "Gus" Bell -- George "Kwabi" Matthews -- Estavan Callaghan -- Derrick Morgan "Headley "Deadly Headley" Bennett -- Freedom Mento Band -- Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan -- Kew Park Mento band -- Jackie Robinson
Owen "Count Owen" Emmanuel -- Stanley "McBeth" Hunter -- Kenneth "Lord Laro" Lara -- Stanley "Stanley Turbyne" Beckford -- Mount Peace Mento Band -- Claudelle Clark -- Lloyd "Sarge" Robinson -- Rev. Otis Wright -- Derrick Harriott -- George "Fully" Fulwood -- Vincent Morgan -- Winston "Mr. Fix It" Francis -- Bertram "Ranchie" McLean -- Alvin "Seeco" Patterson -- Michael "Ras Michael" Henry -- Noel "Skully", "Zoot Simms", Mr. Foundation" Simms -- Allena "Polly" Robertson -- Eric "Brother Joe" MacDonald -- Albert "Brother Jack, Pa Jack" Hewitt -- Cedric "Cedric Congos" Myton -- Glen "Capo" Adams -- Bobby Aitken -- Carlton "Santa" Davis -- Roy "Spar" Smith -- Clifton "Jackie Jackson" Jackson -- Filiberto (Fil) Callender -- Larry Marshall -- Earl "Little Boy" Lowe -- Lee "Scratch" Perry -- Joseph Hill -- Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace
Ansel Collins -- Michael "Mikey Boo" Richards -- Peter Austin -- Johnny "Dizzy Johnny" Moore -- Keith "Bob Andy" Anderson -- Leroy "Leroy Heptone" Sibbles -- Charles "Charley Organaire" Cameron -- Leonard "The Ethiopian", Jack Sparrow" Dillon -- Wilburn "Stranger Cole" Cole -- Nearlin "Lynn Tait" Tait -- Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw -- Cedric "Im" Brooks -- Ronald "Nambo" Robinson -- Eric Donaldson -- Harris "B.B", "Bibby" Seaton -- Kenneth "Ken Parker" Farquharson -- Dudley "Duds" Sibley -- Maxwell "Max Romeo" Smith -- Alva "Reggie" Lewis -- Brent Dowe -- Justin Hinds -- Lloyd Parks -- Samuel Scott -- Joe Isaacs -- Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare -- Winston Riley -- Robert Lyn -- Lowell "Sly" Dunbar" -- Bobby Ellis -- Ernest Ranglin -- Gladstone Anderson -- Tony Chin -- Val "Dougie" Douglas -- Michael "Mikey", "Mao" Chung -- Boris Gardiner -- Larry McDonald -- Joel "Bunny", "Noel" Brown -- Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez -- Paul Douglas -- Dwight Pinkney -- Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson -- Wycliffe "Steely" Johnson and Cleveland "Clevie" Browne
Appendix A: Recommended listening -- Appendix B: Location and dates of interviews and field recordings
Summary While singers, producers, and studio owners associated with Jamaican popular music have become international icons, many of the studio musicians who were essential to the sound have remained anonymous. This book of photographic portraits and interview excerpts celebrates over one hundred of these legendary musicians
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222) and index
Subject Musicians -- Jamaica -- Interviews
Popular music -- Jamaica -- History and criticism
Musicians.
Popular music.
Jamaica.
Genre/Form interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews.
Interviews.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015022537
ISBN 9780819575883
0819575887
9780819576040
0819576042