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Dread talk : the language of Rastafari
- Title
- Dread talk : the language of Rastafari / Velma Pollard.
- Author
- Pollard, Velma.
- Publication
- Barbados : Canoe Press ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 117 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword to the First Edition / Rex Nettleford -- 1. Dread Talk -- The Speech of the Rastafari in Jamaica -- 2. The Social History of Dread Talk -- 3. Rastafarian Language in St Lucia and Barbados -- 4. Dread Talk -- The Speech of Rastafari in Modern Jamaican Poetry -- 5. The Lexicon of Dread Talk in Standard Jamaican English -- 6. Globalization and the Language of Rastafari -- The Road of the Dread / Lorna Goodison.
- ISBN
- 0773520309
- 9780773520301
- 9768125683
- 9789768125682
- OCLC
- ocm43281182
- 43281182
- SCSB-1127246
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library