The first Rasta : Leonard Howell and the rise of Rastafarianism / by Hélène Lee ; translated by Lily Davis ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Davis.
Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta?ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks?this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leona...
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| Other title: | Premier Rasta. English. |
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| Language: | English French |
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Lawrence Hill Books,
©2003.
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| Edition: | [1st English language ed.] |
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Table of Contents:
- The footsteps of a spirit
- The bird hunter
- En route to New York
- Harlem
- Athlyi Rogers, forerunner of the Rasta movement
- Early companions
- The Ethiopianists
- First sermons in St. Thomas
- Jail house
- The Nya-Binghis
- The Hindu legacy
- From one prison to another
- Bloody '38
- Pinnacle
- Life in the hills
- The first raid
- Howell and the women
- Ganja plantation
- Like children of God in paradise (interview with Blade Howell)
- A stroll in paradise
- Howell and Bustamante
- The 1954 raid
- The ghettos
- Pinnacle's last days
- God or the devil?
- The new culture
- Rasta music, kumina or burru?
- Count Ossie
- The 1960s
- Reggae stars
- Twelve tribes.