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The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer
By: Grant, Colin
Price: $14.98
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: June 2011
Seller ID: 279982
ISBN: 0393081176
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers one of the most influential groups in popular music. Colin Grant presents a lively history of this remarkable band from their upbringing in the brutal slums of Kingston to their first recordings and then international superstardom. With energetic prose and stunning, original research, Grant argues that these reggae stars offered three models for black men in the second half of the twentieth century: accommodate and s...
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