Brent Hagerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 818700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Hagerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Hagerman |
| SIGNATURE | HAGERMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
M arley, B ob (1945–81)
Jamaican musician and activist Bob Marley was the foremost individual responsible for popularizing reggae and the Afro‐Caribbean religion Rastafari internationally. Influenced by the Rastafarian theology of liberation and black nationalist thinkers Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie, his outspoken songs with his band the Wailers contextualized poverty, racism, and the suffering of the underclasses as part of the colonial legacy, particularly in Afr…
Thank you Jah Jah fe give me this a colour: Yellowman's revalorization of thedundus
In 1982, Winston ‘Yellowman’ Foster rose to prominence as Jamaica's king of dancehall reggae and popularized the music genre internationally in the wake of Bob Marley's death. As a dundus, or black person with albinism, Yellowman challenged colonial-derived Jamaican social codes that questioned his blackness and masculinity. By using white society's stereotypes of black hypersexuality and symbols of blackness derived from Rastafari and its ideolo…
Everywhere Is War: Peace and Violence in the Life and Songs of Bob Marley
This paper examines two prevalent representations of Bob Marley in popular culture: Marley as a revolutionary and Marley as an icon of peace. It contends that although his legacy is often reduced to an essential meaning such as peace promoter or an advocate of violence, a closer look at his life and lyrics suggests that Marley's views of peace and violence were more complex. I problematize these binary readings by contextualizing Bob Marley using…
Thank you Jah Jah fe give me this a colour: Yellowman's revalorization of thedundus
In 1982, Winston ‘Yellowman’ Foster rose to prominence as Jamaica's king of dancehall reggae and popularized the music genre internationally in the wake of Bob Marley's death. As a dundus, or black person with albinism, Yellowman challenged colonial-derived Jamaican social codes that questioned his blackness and masculinity. By using white society's stereotypes of black hypersexuality and symbols of blackness derived from Rastafari and its ideolo…
Everywhere Is War: Peace and Violence in the Life and Songs of Bob Marley
This paper examines two prevalent representations of Bob Marley in popular culture: Marley as a revolutionary and Marley as an icon of peace. It contends that although his legacy is often reduced to an essential meaning such as peace promoter or an advocate of violence, a closer look at his life and lyrics suggests that Marley's views of peace and violence were more complex. I problematize these binary readings by contextualizing Bob Marley using…
M arley, B ob (1945–81)
Jamaican musician and activist Bob Marley was the foremost individual responsible for popularizing reggae and the Afro‐Caribbean religion Rastafari internationally. Influenced by the Rastafarian theology of liberation and black nationalist thinkers Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie, his outspoken songs with his band the Wailers contextualized poverty, racism, and the suffering of the underclasses as part of the colonial legacy, particularly in Afr…
Thank you Jah Jah fe give me this a colour: Yellowman's revalorization of thedundus
In 1982, Winston ‘Yellowman’ Foster rose to prominence as Jamaica's king of dancehall reggae and popularized the music genre internationally in the wake of Bob Marley's death. As a dundus, or black person with albinism, Yellowman challenged colonial-derived Jamaican social codes that questioned his blackness and masculinity. By using white society's stereotypes of black hypersexuality and symbols of blackness derived from Rastafari and its ideolo…
Art (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Lyrics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)