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Author Bilby, Kenneth M., 1953- author.

Title Words of our mouth, meditations of our heart : pioneering musicians of ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dancehall / Kenneth Bilby.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Music/interview
Music:interview.
Note Includes index.
Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222) and index.
Summary While singers, producers, and studio owners associated with Jamaican popular music have become international icons, many of the studio musicians who were essential to the sound have remained anonymous. This book of photographic portraits and interview excerpts celebrates over one hundred of these legendary musicians.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Words and Images -- Lammy Palmer and Emmanuel Palmer -- Alerth Bedasse -- Arthur Robinson (Bunny) -- Cecil Campbell (Prince Buster) -- Owen Gray -- Jerome Haynes (Jah Jerry) -- Evan Lloyd Richards (Richard Ace) -- Ivanhoe Wilson and Members of the Zion Hill Congregation -- George Dudley (Bunny) -- Rafael Griffiths and Members of the Congregation of the African Reform Church of God -- Lloyd Clayton (Brother Job, Baba Job) -- J. McLaughlin -- Donald Manning -- Herbert Armsby -- Winston Grennan -- Linford Brown (Hux) -- Edgar Reid -- David Powell (Lapi) -- Neville Baker, Lucille Forbes, and Company -- Vira Brown -- Derrick Bell (Gus) -- George Matthews (Kwabi) -- Estavan Callaghan -- Derrick Morgan -- Headley Bennett (Deadly Headley) -- Freedom Mento Band -- Radcliffe Bryan (Dougie) -- Kew Park Mento Band -- Jackie Robinson -- Owen Emmanuel (Count Owen) -- Stanley Hunter (McBeth) -- Kenneth Lara (Lord Laro) -- Stanley Beckford (Stanley Turbyne).
Note continued: Mount Peace Mento Band -- Claudelle Clarke -- Lloyd Robinson (Sarge) -- Rev. Otis Wright -- Derrick Harriott -- George Fulwood (Fully) -- Vincent Morgan -- Winston Francis (Mr. Fix It) -- Bertram McLean (Ranchie) -- Alvin Patterson (Seeco) -- Michael Henry (Ras Michael) -- Noel Simms (Skully, Zoot Simms, Mr. Foundation) -- Allena Robertson (Polly) -- Eric MacDonald (Brother Joe) -- Albert Hewitt (Brother Jack, Pa Jack) -- Cedric Myton (Cedric Congos) -- Glen Adams (Capo) -- Bobby Aitken -- Carlton Davis (Santa) -- Roy Smith (Spar) -- Clifton Jackson (Jackie Jackson) -- Filberto Callender (Fil) -- Larry Marshall -- Earl Lowe (Little Roy) -- Lee Perry (Scratch) -- Joseph Hill -- Leroy Wallace (Horsemouth) -- Ansel Collins -- Michael Richards (Mikey Boo) -- Peter Austin -- Johnny Moore (Dizzy Johnny) -- Keith Anderson (Bob Andy) -- Leroy Sibbles (Leroy Heptone) -- Charles Cameron (Charley Organaire) -- Leonard Dillon (The Ethiopian, Jack Sparrow).
Note continued: Wilburn Cole (Stranger Cole) -- Nearlin Taitt (Lynn Taitt) -- Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw -- Cedric "Im" Brooks -- Ronald Robinson (Nambo) -- Eric Donaldson -- Harris Seaton (B.B., Bibby) -- Kenneth Farquharson (Ken Parker) -- Dudley Sibley (Duds) -- Maxwell Smith (Max Romeo) -- Alva Lewis (Reggie) -- Brent Dowe -- Justin Hinds -- Lloyd Parks -- Samuel Scott -- Joe Isaacs -- Robert Shakespeare (Robbie) -- Winston Riley -- Robert Lyn -- Lowell Dunbar (Sly) -- Bobby Ellis -- Ernest Ranglin -- Gladstone Anderson -- Tony Chin -- Val Douglas (Dougie) -- Michael Chung (Mikey, Mao) -- Boris Gardiner -- Larry McDonald -- Joel Brown (Bunny, Noel) -- Emmanuel Rodriguez (Rico) -- Paul Douglas -- Dwight Pinkney -- Uzziah Thompson (Sticky) -- Wycliffe Johnson and Cleveland Browne (Steely and Clevie).
Subject Musicians -- Jamaica -- Interviews.
Popular music -- Jamaica -- History and criticism.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Musicians. (OCoLC)fst01030837
Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
Jamaica. (OCoLC)fst01211575
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Other Form: Print version: Bilby, Kenneth M., 1953- Words of our mouth, meditations of our heart 9780819575883 (DLC) 2015022537 (OCoLC)910993828
ISBN 9780819576040 (electronic book)
0819576042 (electronic book)
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