David Aarons
Biographic Data
| ID | 131863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Aarons |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Aarons |
| SIGNATURE | AARONS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Listening With and From Caribbean Bodies / Escuchar con y desde cuerpos caribeños (Roundtable Transcript)
Let's start somewhere near the beginning, or at least at a site of return. In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of Caribbeanist ethnomusicologists gathered virtually for a roundtable at the Society for Ethnomusicology's (SEM) annual meeting. That roundtable, titled “(Re)Positioning the Caribbean: Practical and Theoretical Issues in Caribbean Ethnomusicology,” marked an effort to name the ongoing limitations shaping Caribbe…
We Should Be Louder
Rastafari who repatriated themselves to Ethiopia in the belief that it is their Promised Land create sacred spaces by amplifying their praises to Haile Selassie through drumming, chanting, and sound systems. Members of the repatriated Rastafari community in Ethiopia employ multiple approaches to amplification as a strategy for working through and against the limitations of space, visibility, audibility, and already-established notions of what it …
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity
Island Gospel
From Babylon to Ethiopia
In this article, I investigate the ways in which Rastafari discourse on repatriation to Africa – articulated through reggae music – engages utopianism to varying degrees based on the artists’ proximity to Ethiopia. I discuss reggae songs composed and recorded in Jamaica by five different artists/bands that engage Ethiopia-focused utopianism and compare these with songs composed and recorded by one of the most famous repatriated Rastafari reggae a…
It Fit fi Wi”
Sarah Daynes, Time and Memory in Reggae Music. The Politics of Hope
In Time and Memory in Reggae Music: The Politics of Hope, sociologist Sarah Daynes offers thoughtful reflections on the dynamic relationship between time and memory as articulated in reggae music and Rastafari ideology. She uses music as a case study in collective memory, demonstrating how reggae artists draw on biblical and more recent events (e.g. the Trans-Atlantic slave trade) to construct and transmit memories that impact and are impacted by…
In their own words
More Than Cool Reason
More Than Cool Reason
In their own words
Sarah Daynes, Time and Memory in Reggae Music. The Politics of Hope
In Time and Memory in Reggae Music: The Politics of Hope, sociologist Sarah Daynes offers thoughtful reflections on the dynamic relationship between time and memory as articulated in reggae music and Rastafari ideology. She uses music as a case study in collective memory, demonstrating how reggae artists draw on biblical and more recent events (e.g. the Trans-Atlantic slave trade) to construct and transmit memories that impact and are impacted by…
From Babylon to Ethiopia
In this article, I investigate the ways in which Rastafari discourse on repatriation to Africa – articulated through reggae music – engages utopianism to varying degrees based on the artists’ proximity to Ethiopia. I discuss reggae songs composed and recorded in Jamaica by five different artists/bands that engage Ethiopia-focused utopianism and compare these with songs composed and recorded by one of the most famous repatriated Rastafari reggae a…
It Fit fi Wi”
Island Gospel
Listening With and From Caribbean Bodies / Escuchar con y desde cuerpos caribeños (Roundtable Transcript)
Let's start somewhere near the beginning, or at least at a site of return. In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of Caribbeanist ethnomusicologists gathered virtually for a roundtable at the Society for Ethnomusicology's (SEM) annual meeting. That roundtable, titled “(Re)Positioning the Caribbean: Practical and Theoretical Issues in Caribbean Ethnomusicology,” marked an effort to name the ongoing limitations shaping Caribbe…
We Should Be Louder
Rastafari who repatriated themselves to Ethiopia in the belief that it is their Promised Land create sacred spaces by amplifying their praises to Haile Selassie through drumming, chanting, and sound systems. Members of the repatriated Rastafari community in Ethiopia employ multiple approaches to amplification as a strategy for working through and against the limitations of space, visibility, audibility, and already-established notions of what it …
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works)