Dread Talk

"In Dread Talk Velma Pollard describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing that it is distinct from both Creole and Standard English. She demonstrates that dread talk must be understood in terms of Jamaican social history, emphasizing its religious origins, its evolution as a language of social protest, and its spread around the world through the Reggae music of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Jimmy Cliff. This revised edition includes a new chapter, "Dread Talk in the Diaspora," that discusses Rastafarian as used in the urban centres of North America and Europe."--Jacket.

First sentence: The history and sociology of the Rastafari in Jamaica have been the subject of enough literature2 to legitimize Rex Nettleford's comment that the movement is "one of the most significant phenomena to emerge out of the modem history and sociology of Plantation America, that New World culturesphere of which Jamaica and the Caribbean are a part.

Year

1994

Language

English

Publisher

University of the West Indies Press

Editions

4

Pages

100

ISBN

9789768125118

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