Book Review: Black to the Roots: Reggae’s Rise, Downpression, and Rescension
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Book Review: Black to the Roots: Reggae’s Rise, Downpression, and Rescension
By R. A. Ptahsen-Shabazz, Ph.D. R. A. Ptahsen-Shabazz’s Black to the Roots is an erudite, generous, and deeply felt meditation on reggae as both a sound and a philosophy. It is also a clear invitation: to listen more closely, to hear history and hope braided into basslines, and to recognize reggae not simply as a genre but as a living archive of Black world-making. With scholarly rigor and a storyteller’s cadence, Ptahsen-Shabazz maps the music’…
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