Jon Tattrie

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ISBN: 9781897426876

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Redemption Songs

How Bob Marley's Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism

Author: Jon Tattrie
Publisher: Pottersfield Press

Redemption Songs tells the extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley’s greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia. It opens with Marley’s live acoustic performance of Redemption Song at the end of his life, and reveals that the core lyric comes from a speech Marcus Garvey delivered in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1937.

The line “We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery” springboards the reader into the book’s ambitions. The author explores why Marley so revered Garvey, and, in doing so, looks at the roots of Rastafarianism and ideas about race.

tagged: Business and Politics, Current Events, Jon Tattrie, Paperback, Pottersfield Press

Details and Specs

ISBN associated with this title:	9781897426876
Item	PC0247
Publisher	Pottersfield Press
Publisher	Pottersfield Press
Published on	September 9 2016
Language	eng
Pages	240
Format	Paperback
Dimensions	8.5(in) x 5.5(in)
Shipping weight	361(g)
Status	ACTIVE TITLE

Jon Tattrie

Jon Tattrie is an award-winning author and journalist. His previous books include Redemption Songs: How Bob Marley"s Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism, Cornwallis: The Violent Birth of Halifax, and The Hermit of Africville.

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