Contents: Africa we want fe go (Count Ossie's Rasta Family) -- None shall escape the judgement (Johnny Clarke) -- Haile Selassie (Laurel Aitken) -- Tales of Mozambique (Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari) -- Booma Yeah (Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus) -- Say (Mutabaruka) -- African Drums (Bongo Herman & Jah Lloyd) -- Hail the words of Jah (Ashanti Roy) -- Sam's intro (Count Ossie & The...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2015

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Contents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017

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Kincaid, Jamaica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002

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Kincaid, Jamaica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

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Kincaid, Jamaica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2005

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Kincaid, Jamaica.

Summary: Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1985

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Contents: Disc one. Invitation to Jamaica / Lord Tanamo -- Fat man / Derrick Morgan -- Tell me darling / Jackie Edwards -- Running around / Owen Gray -- Miss Jamaica / Jimmy Cliff -- Housewife's choice / Derrick & Patsy -- Give me all your love / The Continentals -- Darling Patricia / Owen Gray -- Man to man / Kentrick Patrick -- Uno-dos-tres / Stranger & Ken -- Slow boat / Al T. Joe -- Rude boy / Duke...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Contents: Mr. Landlord (Basil Gabbidon) -- Milk Lane hop (Clue J and his Blues Blasters) -- Wigger wee shuffle (Derrick Morgan) -- Stew peas and cornflakes (Audrey Adams and Rico Rodriguez) -- Another Moses (the Mello-Cat Count Ossie & his Warickers [that is, the Mellow Cats, Count Ossie & his Wareikas]) -- Wicked and dreadful (Neville Esson) -- Proof rum (Clue J and his Blues Blasters) -- Leave earth...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Contents: CD 1. Independent Jamaica (Lord Creator) -- Blow Roland blow (Joanne Gordon & Roland Alphonso) -- Malcolm X (The Skatalites) -- Mouth a massy (Alton Ellis) -- Take it easy (Hopeton Lewis) -- Ba ba boom (The Jamaicans) -- Such is life (Lord Creator) -- I love the reggay (The Gaylads) -- Love of the common people (Nicky Thomas) -- Cherry oh baby (Eric Donaldson) -- Java (Augustus Pablo) --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: VP Music Group Inc. 2012

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Summary: Jamaica became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the land of sea, sand and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devasting consequences of globalization.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003

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Summary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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Summary: Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Contents: See a man's face (Horace Andy) -- Right on rasta (Cedric Im Brooks & Count Ossie) -- Jah dread (Prince Jazzbo) -- What about me (Myrna Hague) -- Time to be happy (Michigan & Smiley) -- Stick together (the Wailing Souls) -- Have no fear (Sugar Minott) -- Just another day (Judah Eskender Tafari) -- Chuky skank (Dillinger) -- Bredda labba labba (Freddy McGregor) -- Stay with me (Frankie Wilmoth)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Contents: Lunchmeataphobia (think! it ain't illegal yet) / Funkadelic -- The Wrong side / Buckweat Zydeco -- Fortune Teller / Benny Spellman -- The Wanderer / Dion -- I'm a hog for you / The Coasters -- Johnny too bad / The Slickers -- Pressure drop / The Maytals -- I sold my heart to the junkman / Patti LaBelle & The Blue Belles -- Evening train / Chuck Leavell -- Crawl part 1 / Willie Mitchell -- Carry...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Here you will find some of the deepest and rawest cuts to emanate out the Studio One factory, truly hypnotic rhythms, powerful funk guitar and bass, soaring horns and more interspersed with occasional vocals and toasting as musicians reach for the highest heights and deepest roots of reggae music.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Contents: Stars (the Eternals) -- Fancy make up (John Holt) -- Whisper to me (Cecile Campbell) -- Party time (the Heptones) -- Joy in the morning (the Gaylads) -- My ambition (Marcia Griffiths) -- Love won't come easy (the Heptones) -- Hurting me (Alton Ellis) -- Row fisherman row (Wailing Souls) -- Home, home, home (Ken Boothe) -- Our thing (Jackie Mittoo) -- When I fall in love (Ken Boothe) -- Throw me...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2014

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Contents: Keep that light (Johnny Osbourne & the Prophets) (6:07) -- Natty ten to one (Dillinger) (2:26) -- Natty Dread on the go (Lone Ranger) (2:39) -- Minstral (Prince Jazzbo) (3:33) -- Jah promise (Johnny Osbourne) (3:51) -- Wine of violence (Freddie McGregor) (3:18) -- Compliment to Studio One (Papa Michigan and General Smiley) (5:07) -- Easy (Willie Williams) (4:23) -- Quarter pound of ishen (Lone...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2017

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Summary: "Fifty years ago, Trojan Records began its intensive campaign of introducing Jamaican music to the rest of the world. Hip, well-connected and extremely fast on their feet, Trojan ensured they heard the best singles first, and rapidly secured the rights to share them with an insatiable new audience thousands of miles from Jamaica. .... To celebrate Trojan's golden jubilee, MOJO is honoured to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2018

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1998

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Contents: Lovery boy (Derrick Morgan) -- Carry go bring come (Justin Hinds & the Dominoes) -- Blazing fire (Derrick Morgan) -- No good Rudie (Justin Hinds & the Dominoes) -- Tougher than tough (Rudie in court) (Derrick Morgan) -- Rudy, a message to you (Dandy Livingstone) -- 54-46 was my number (The Maytals) -- Seven letters (Derrick Morgan) -- Reggae in your jeggae (Dandy) -- Ali baba (John Holt) -- 007...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Falsely accused of murder, Balthazar is on the run, while his colleagues at the police and the Forensic Institute have been suspended. When a diabolical killer emerges, Balthazar comes out of hiding to set things right.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hélène Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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