120. Redemption Songs: Reggae and Rastafari
How the Rastafari movement grew from trends within Africana philosophy, and then passed into global popular culture in the music of Bob Marley and other reggae artists.
• M.H. Chawane, “The Rastafarian Movement in South Africa: a Religion or Way of Life?” Journal for the Study of Religion 27 (2014), 214-37.
• D. Dunkley, Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement (Baton Rouge: 2021).
• E.B. Edmonds, Rastafari: from Outcasts to Culture Bearers (Oxford: 2003).
• S.A. King, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control (Jackson MI: 2002).
• D.V. Moskowitz, Bob Marley: a Biography (Westport CT: 2007).
• S. Singh, “Resistance, Essentialism, and Empowerment in Black Nationalist Discourse in the African Diaspora: A Comparison of the Back to Africa, Black Power, and Rastafari Movements,” Journal of African American Studies 8 (2004), 18-36.
• A.M. Waters, Race, Class, and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics (London: 2017).
Episodes 68 - Africana Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
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Ethiopian Orthodox
Shortly after his cancer diagnosis, Marley was baptized into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - the same church to which Selassie belonged.
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