Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of tables and boxes vii
4. List of figures ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Epigraph xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I A study in elective affinity: Music, religion, memory
9. 1 Reggae and Rastafari 21
10. 2 Interpreting songs 36
11. 3 A diachronic analysis of Jamaican reggae charts, 1968 –2000 54
12. 4 The construction of a musical memory 69
13. Part II Remembering the past
14. 5 Slavery and the diaspora 85
15. 6 The construction of a religious chain of memory 105
16. Part III Revealing the future
17. 7 Messianism, between past and future 125
18. 8 Hope and redemption 141
19. 9 The eschatology as future-present 154
20. 10 The construction of a socio-political memory 169
21. Part IV From revelation to revolution
22. 11 Rhetoric of oppression and social critique 191
23. 12 Only rasta can liberate the people 205
24. Part V Conclusion
25. 13 Time and memory 231
26. Annex 1 265
27. Annex 2 271
28. Bibliography 274
29. Index 291