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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by: Lloyd Bradley List Price: £12.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.99 You Save: £3.00 (23%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 781 EAN: 9780140237634 ISBN: 0140237631 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Pages: 592 Publication Date: August 30, 2001 Publisher: Penguin Studio: Penguin Sales Rank: 94066 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Informative, interesting and will help dispell the stereotypes of Jamaican music.As a dj playing original roots and dub, Bass Culture was a godsend. This book is highly informative and contains enough captivating and meaningful anecdotes to hold your attention. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially those who only think of Bob Marley when they think of reggae. In response to the negative reviews regarding its lack of attention to dancehall, I think Lloyd Bradley has done great justice to reggae history and helped de-mystify the true roots and culture of Jamaican music. If he didn't focus on the 80's and 90's, it's probably because a lot of people don't regard those as very influential times for reggae music - influential to Dancehall certainly, but purists argue that there's quite the difference between ... Read More: Rating: - Best Book on Reggae HistoryThis gives the right balance of social history, music history and information without overloading me with facts I can't digest. As a result I've gone off to discover new music by new artists (or rather old and dead ones, but you know what I mean). I'm not a great reader of music books, for reasons similar to those given by other reviewers of this book, but this is an exception. Well written and consistantly interesting. Rating:  - NOT COMPREHENSIVE AND POORLY WRITTENBigger isn't always better. Bass Culture may be thick but it covers musch less ground than Reggae Routes : The Story of Jamaican Music and is not nearly as well written. Yes there are some good stories here, but Bradley ignores the 1980s and 1990s almost completely, as if dancehall is not an integral part of Jamaican music. Furthermore he is far from a smooth stylist and this book is often heavy going. Anyone who reads Bass Culture thinking this was all there was to reggae would be sadly misinformed. Rating: - Comprehensive, compelling and essentialUtilises a mixture of social and cultural analysis aligned to verbatim quotes from many of the key players - this is a compelling read which has inspired me to dust off many an old vinyl classic and go and re-purchase (and investigate new avenues) from the golden age of reggae. Rating: - Comprehensive history of reggae and Jamaican musicLloyd Bradley has done an excellent job with this book of not just documenting the origins and developement of what came to be reggae music but also capturing the social and political backdrop in which it emerged. The text is comprehensive yet hugely readable and I would say is a must read for any reggae enthusiast. He seems very familiar with both Jamaica and it's people and exlains the various changes it has undergone in a fair and balanced way. He is to be commended for his unbiased and understanding approach to Rastafari and also his commentry on the islands politics where it is relevent. The one criticism I would have, and I'm afraid to say it's a major one, is his focus on ska/roots reggae almost entirely to the near total ... Read More: |
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