The Division of Historical past and the Centre for the Research of the Legacies of British Slavery on the College School London (UCL) current a lecture by Matthew J. Smith, “Bob’s Again from London: Music, Energy, and Decolonization in Jamaica” on Could 25, 2022, at 5:30pm (GMT).
Description: In 1962 Jamaicans stopped being British topics and took on a brand new nationwide id. It was additionally the 12 months Jamaican common music started its stretch from the cracked concrete of Kingston to the capital’s higher reaches. A political division separated greater than city geography and made the challenge of unbiased Jamaica a flawed and generally deadly idea. The story of each the politics and the music have been informed many occasions over. Much less consideration has been given to the interstitial moments when the visions of Jamaica promoted by cultural and political brokers collided, particularly within the Nineteen Seventies, a violent interval that was on the identical time the last decade Jamaican music broke into the mainstream. This presentation discusses the Nineteen Seventies by means of three moments within the lifetime of Jamaican legend, Bob Marley. As his phenomenal success grew so too did Jamaica’s issues in an period that continues to outline trendy Jamaica.
Matthew J. Smith is Professor of Historical past and Director of the Centre for the Research of the Legacies of British Slave-Possession. He joined UCL after a few years working on the College of the West Indies, Mona, the place he was Professor of Caribbean Historical past. His publications embody Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation (2014) and Purple and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Battle and Political Change, 1934-1957 (2009).
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