Bob Marley: The Life and Legacy of Reggae's Global Icon
ISBN: 9781500298678
$6.99
*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.
*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.