Dear colleagues,
Please find below some information about a new book about Jamaican music in
England between the 1960s and the 1990s.
Eric Doumerc
The Windrush scandal has recently refocused the public's attention on the
contribution West Indian immigrants and their descendants have made to
British society since the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948. The
"Windrush generation" is now accepted shorthand to refer to the immigrants
who came from the West Indies, Britain's former colonies in the Caribbean.
Most of these early settlers came from Jamaica, although there were also
migrants from Trinidad, St Lucia and other territories which were then
still British colonies.
*Jamaican Music in England from the 1960s to the 1990s* (Stourbridge: APS
Publications, 2018) by Eric Doumerc examines the Jamaican contribution
to English society during four important decades from a musical and
cultural point of view. The book follows a chronological approach and looks
at the way Jamaican popular music came to enter mainstream British culture
in the 1980s after being somewhat marginalised in the 1960s and early
1970s.
Bob Marley's influence, the Two Tone movement, reggae's meeting with punk
music, as well as the development of specifically English musical genres
like Lovers' Rock are all examined, while the chapter on the 1990s takes
into account new musical forms like electronica and various fusions.
This book is now available on Amazon in various formats.
Eric Doumerc teaches English at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, in
Toulouse, southwestern France. His research interests include Caribbean
poetry, music, and the Caribbean oral tradition.
He edited *Five Birmingham* *Poets ,*an anthology of poems by black poets
from the West Midlands which was published in 2006 by Raka Books, the late
Roi Kwabena's publishing imprint.
His recent publications include *Celebrate Wha' : Ten Black British Poets
from the Midlands *(Middelesbrough : Smokestack Books, 2011), an anthology
which he co-edited with the poet Roy McFarlane and *Dub Poets in Their Own
Words *(APS PUblications, 2017), a collection of interviews with dub poets
in England, Jamaica and the USA.
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