Bob Marley: The Life and Legacy of Reggae's Global Icon
ISBN: 9781500298678
*Includes pictures
*Includes Marley's own quotes
*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading
*Includes a table of contents
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.” – Bob Marley
“If there remains any magic, it is music.” – Bob Marley
In terms of raw popularity, Bob Marley sold over 20 million albums in a brief career that took him around the globe as “the first international superstar from the so-called Third World,” but the journey from anonymity within his own culture to reigning as “the defining figure of Jamaican music” was a circuitous and dangerous one. After leaving home at the age of 14, Marley’s streets skills helped him “gain a foothold in Jamaica’s chaotic music industry while skillfully navigating politically partisan violence that abounded in Kingston through the 70s,” and his exaltation of the reggae form, couched in the Rastafari, became an instrument of order as a haven for otherwise directionless youth in Kingston and other communities of Jamaica.
Beginning with the more lighthearted ska style, Marley drew fellow Jamaicans as kindred spirits by adding social commentary to the lyrics, and as these popular dance hits were infused with songs of faith, the weightier genre of reggae emerged. Marley would become “one of the genre’s most beloved artists,” and to the outer world, he is by far the most iconic individual associated with the form and the era. As the merely distractive element of ska fell away “into the slower, bass-heavy reggae sound,” the accompanying depth of message lifted him above the category of mere entertainer, and his fellow Jamaican youth turned to him for social truths. As a Rolling Stone writer noted, “Marley wasn't singing about how peace could come easily to the World but rather how hell on Earth comes too easily to too many. His songs were his memories; he had lived with the wretched, he had seen the downpressers and those whom they pressed down."
*Includes Marley's own quotes
*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading
*Includes a table of contents
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.” – Bob Marley
“If there remains any magic, it is music.” – Bob Marley
In terms of raw popularity, Bob Marley sold over 20 million albums in a brief career that took him around the globe as “the first international superstar from the so-called Third World,” but the journey from anonymity within his own culture to reigning as “the defining figure of Jamaican music” was a circuitous and dangerous one. After leaving home at the age of 14, Marley’s streets skills helped him “gain a foothold in Jamaica’s chaotic music industry while skillfully navigating politically partisan violence that abounded in Kingston through the 70s,” and his exaltation of the reggae form, couched in the Rastafari, became an instrument of order as a haven for otherwise directionless youth in Kingston and other communities of Jamaica.
Beginning with the more lighthearted ska style, Marley drew fellow Jamaicans as kindred spirits by adding social commentary to the lyrics, and as these popular dance hits were infused with songs of faith, the weightier genre of reggae emerged. Marley would become “one of the genre’s most beloved artists,” and to the outer world, he is by far the most iconic individual associated with the form and the era. As the merely distractive element of ska fell away “into the slower, bass-heavy reggae sound,” the accompanying depth of message lifted him above the category of mere entertainer, and his fellow Jamaican youth turned to him for social truths. As a Rolling Stone writer noted, “Marley wasn't singing about how peace could come easily to the World but rather how hell on Earth comes too easily to too many. His songs were his memories; he had lived with the wretched, he had seen the downpressers and those whom they pressed down."
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