Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World?ISBN: 978-0-7456-3089-2
Paperback
208 pages
November 2007, Polity
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Popular Music
"The number of issues that Jason covers is quite remarkable and
the bibliography highlights the excellent research; I doubt there
will be many other books written on Bob Marley which cover 19th
century slave revolts, mento and nyabinghi musical styles and
unemployment and police harassment in Birmingham ... I fully
recommend the book to anyone who has spent any length of time
listening to Bob Marley, or to anyone who has an interest in the
origins and spread of reggae music."
The Socialist
"Jason Toynbee not only brings out the complexity of his music
in this fascinating book, but takes the reader to some interesting
details of the history of the rise of one of the most influential
musicians of the twentieth century."
Spectrum
"This book is a serious scholarly treatment of the life and
music of Bob Marley which is well worth reading. It does not only
trace Bob Marley's life and music through the turbulent post-war
years but attempts to answer a crucial question: why has this
artiste and this music, from a small Carribean island, had such a
broad global impact? ... Toynbee insists that the global appear of
this music has its own independent substance. The same may be said
for this thoughtful and knowledgeable book. Courses in cultural
studies and musicology at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels should take careful note."
Global Media and Communication
"A smart and engaging example of what a popular music biography
should look like."
Timothy Taylor, University of California, Los
Angeles
"As if infected by the sheer surprise and complexity of his
music, this book makes sense of the contradictions of Bob Marley's
life and work with wonderful analytic verve and an engaging display
of the dogged scholarly need to understand. A tour-de-force of
applied cultural theory and in itself confirmation of Bob Marley's
continuing inspirational power!"
Simon Frith, Edinburgh University