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Dead for twenty-five years now, Bob Marley still resonates from stereos, car radios, and iPods of millions of fans around the world: I don't know if the vitality of his music depends on the typical reggae mood, its recovery of ancient tribalisms, its mixture of tradition and modernity, its hypnotic rhythm, or from the overuse of the Marley persona and the values he represented: pulled by the scruff by third-world supporters, syncretists, libertarians, the petty bourgeois who crowded his concerts in late ’70s Europe, nostalgics, advertisers, spoiled kids, and a thousand others. So be it. Discover the review
Dead for twenty-five years now, Bob Marley still resonates from stereos, car radios, and iPods of millions of fans around the world: I don't know if the vitality of his music depends on the typical reggae mood, its recovery of ancient tribalisms, its mixture of tradition and modernity, its hypnotic rhythm, or from the overuse of the Marley persona and the values he represented: pulled by the scruff by third-world supporters, syncretists, libertarians, the petty bourgeois who crowded his concerts in late ’70s Europe, nostalgics, advertisers, spoiled kids, and a thousand others. So be it.
The album consecrates Marley as a rockstar and the social and political component, during a bloody period for Jamaica, remains veiled. Discover the review
The album consecrates Marley as a rockstar and the social and political component, during a bloody period for Jamaica, remains veiled.
An album where the path of euphorism becomes more intrinsic to the accumulation of the socio/cultural variety of the era. Discover the review
An album where the path of euphorism becomes more intrinsic to the accumulation of the socio/cultural variety of the era.
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