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Reggae Books
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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 840 ratings — published 2000
The Rough Guide to Reggae (Rough Guide Music Guides)
by (shelved 8 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.34 — 136 ratings — published 1997
Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,143 ratings — published 1983
Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.03 — 108 ratings — published 2012
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,443 ratings — published 2014
King Jammy's (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.85 — 20 ratings — published 2002
People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.04 — 157 ratings — published 2009
The Encyclopedia of Reggae: The Golden Age of Roots Reggae (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.45 — 20 ratings — published 2012
Reggae & Caribbean Music: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2001
Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Kiss Me Neck: The Scratch Story in Words, Pictures and Records (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.25 — 12 ratings — published 2011
Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.55 — 112 ratings — published
Dancehall: The Story of Jamaican Dancehall Culture By Beth Lesser (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.50 — 52 ratings — published 2008
The Cover Art of Studio One Records (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2011
Reggae Explosion: The Story of Jamaican Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.05 — 58 ratings — published 2001
Young, Gifted, and Black: The Story of Trojan Records with CD (Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.31 — 54 ratings — published 2003
The Rastafarians (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 418 ratings — published 1977
Time Come: Selected Prose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.10 — 59 ratings — published
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.29 — 49 ratings — published
The Story of Trojan Records (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published
Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's Wailers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published 2008
One Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published 2003
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.99 — 539 ratings — published
Bob Marley: The Stories Behind Every Song (Stories Behind the Songs)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.19 — 16 ratings — published 2011
The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.01 — 130 ratings — published 2000
Dub in Babylon: The Emergence and Influence of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain From King Tubby to Post Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.86 — 14 ratings — published 2010
Rub a Dub Style: The Roots of Modern Dancehall (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2012
Reggae International (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 1982
Tighten Up: The History of Reggae in the UK (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.80 — 20 ratings — published 2003
Steppin' Razor, The Life of Peter Tosh (MP3 CD)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.08 — 71 ratings — published 2013
The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.99 — 98 ratings — published 2011
Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Music / Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.30 — 200 ratings — published 2007
Rude Boy: Once Upon a Time in Jamaica (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.00 — 43 ratings — published 2000
Reggae Soundsystem: Label Art of Reggae Singles (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.50 — 16 ratings — published 2012
Marley and Me: The Real Bob Marley Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 3.87 — 188 ratings — published 1994
Bob Marley: Conquering Lion of Reggae (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 146 ratings — published 1984
Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 110 ratings — published 2003
Bob Marley: My Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.12 — 128 ratings — published 1997
No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,985 ratings — published 2004
Reggae Scrapbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 2007
Boss Sounds: Classic Skinhead Reggae (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.52 — 27 ratings — published 1995
Reggae Bloodlines: In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 48 ratings — published
Bob Marley (Music Icons)
by (shelved 2 times as reggae)
avg rating 4.27 — 26 ratings — published 2009
Black Culture, White Youth: Reggae Tradition from JA to UK (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 1988
The Power Of The Word: Jamaican Deejays in the 1970s (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Popular Image of Rastafarians and Bob Marley (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Original (Jamaican) Dancehall Dictionary: Talk like a Jamaican (Original Dancehall Dictionary which is an explanation of the ever evolving Jamaican language. Book 6)
by (shelved 1 time as reggae)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2013
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as reggae)
avg rating 4.42 — 34,236 ratings — published 2023
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as reggae)
avg rating 4.00 — 848 ratings — published 2022
Ways of Hearing: A User's Guide to the Pop Psyche, from Elvis to Eminem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as reggae)
avg rating 3.36 — 22 ratings — published 2000
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as reggae)
avg rating 4.15 — 387 ratings — published 1998
“We have to look into the mirror to see our scars and wrinkles. This is how we go forward. This is how we learn and teach our kids.”
― Coreville Park a reggae novel
― Coreville Park a reggae novel
“La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en Jamaïque, où ils jugeaient qu'on pourrait fouiner un peu et puiser dans l'influence roots avant d'enregistrer. Tom croyait fermement au bienfait d'exploiter cette source, et je n'avais rien contre puisque ça voulait dire que Pattie et moi aurions une sorte de lune de miel. Kingston était une ville où il était fantastique de travailler. On entendant de la musique partout où on allait. Tout le monde chantait tout le temps, même les femmes de ménage à l'hotel. Ce rythme me rentrait vraiment dans le sang, mais enregistrer avec les Jamaïcains était une autre paire de manches.
Je ne pouvais vraiment pas tenir le rythme de leur consommation de ganja, qui était énorme. Si j'avais essayé de fumer autant ou aussi souvent, je serais tombé dans les pommes ou j'aurais eu des hallucinations. On travaillait aux Dynamic Sound Studios à Kingston. Des gens y entraient et sortaient sans arrêt, tirant sur d'énormes joints en forme de trompette, au point qu'il y avait tant de fumée dans la salle que je ne voyais pas qui était là ou pas. On composait deux chansons avec Peter Tosh qui, affalé sur une chaise, avait l'air inconscient la plupart du temps. Puis, soudain, il se levait et interprétait brillamment son rythme reggae à la pédale wah-wah, le temps d'une piste, puis retombait dans sa transe à la seconde où on s'arrêtait.”
― The Autobiography
Je ne pouvais vraiment pas tenir le rythme de leur consommation de ganja, qui était énorme. Si j'avais essayé de fumer autant ou aussi souvent, je serais tombé dans les pommes ou j'aurais eu des hallucinations. On travaillait aux Dynamic Sound Studios à Kingston. Des gens y entraient et sortaient sans arrêt, tirant sur d'énormes joints en forme de trompette, au point qu'il y avait tant de fumée dans la salle que je ne voyais pas qui était là ou pas. On composait deux chansons avec Peter Tosh qui, affalé sur une chaise, avait l'air inconscient la plupart du temps. Puis, soudain, il se levait et interprétait brillamment son rythme reggae à la pédale wah-wah, le temps d'une piste, puis retombait dans sa transe à la seconde où on s'arrêtait.”
― The Autobiography












