Steffens, Roger
Summary: Draws on forty years of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants, many speaking publicly for the first time, to offer an oral history depicting the reggae icon's life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARLEY, BOB MAREllison, Katie
Summary: "Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Born in rural Jamaica, this musician and songwriter began his career with his band, The Wailing Wailers, in 1963. The Wailers went on to spread the gospel of reggae music around the globe. Bob's distinctive style and dedication to his Rastafari beliefs became a rallying cry for the poor...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET MARLEYBruns, Don.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUSummary: Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.James, Marlon
Summary: On December 3, 1976, gunmen stormed Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing, nearly killing all inside. Marley left the country three days later, not to return for two years. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts, this is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMJames, Marlon
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMContents: 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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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE STUContents: Illiteracy (Horace Andy) -- Be a man (The Heptones) -- Natty gone (The Manchesters) -- Down town rebel (The Gladiators) -- Calling (Willie Williams) -- Sir D special (Roland Alphonso & Brentford All Stars) -- God I God I say (Keith Wilson) -- Almost anything (Alton Ellis) -- Adis a wa wa (Bobby Kalphat & the New Establishment) -- Sing a new song (Peter Broggs) -- Let freedom reign (Mystic...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE BLAGaet's
Summary: "In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAESalewicz, Chris.
Summary: Chris Salewicz interviewed Marley in Jamaica in 1979. In this thorough and detailed account of Marley's life and the world in which he grew up and came to dominate, Salewicz brings to life not only the Rastafari religion and the musical scene in Jamaica but also the spirit of the man himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.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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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TREContents: To plant / Breeze (4:08) -- Set de prisoners free / Mutabaruka (3:04) -- Victim / Malachi Smith (3:31) -- Drop it / Tomlin Ellis (1:48) -- Blood shout / Glenville Bryan (3:48) -- Mr. Bigness man / Navvie Nabbie (3:49) -- Aid travels with a bomb / Breeze (3:23) -- Signs of the times / Oliver Smith (3:16) -- Out of many one / Mutabaruka (3:19) -- Fork and hoe (3:37) -- Death row (3:29) -- Cussing...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartbeat Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE WorSummary: "Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time in all of his various incarnations, from a young novelty hit-maker and Ziggy Stardust to plastic soul player, 1980s sell-out, and the artistically reborn and beloved elder statesman of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID BOWBromfield, Asha
Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRODekker, Desmond
Contents: Jamaica ska -- Wise man -- Intensified -- Rudy got soul -- The more you live -- Israelites --Pickney gal -- Pretty Africa -- Problems -- It mek -- Don't blame me -- 0.0.7
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fuel 2000 Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE DEKContents: Disc 1: Money in my pocket -- A-so we stay -- Ration -- I've got a feeling (take 2) -- Knock on wood -- Baby I need your loving -- The world is on a wheel -- More dub -- More dub chapter II -- In heaven there is no beer -- Pretty face girl -- Make love not war -- Horse race -- Things not easy -- Virginia skank -- Fort Agustus rock -- Whip them jah jah -- If you had known -- Africa want us all...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Doctor Bird 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MONContents: 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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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TROContents: Turn the lights down low (Lauryn Hill) -- Waiting in vain (Chrissie Hynde) -- Jammin' (Chrissie Hynde & Jimmy Cliff) -- No more trouble (Erykah Badu) -- No woman no cry (Erykah Badu & Jimmy Cliff) -- Who the cap fit (Queen Latifah) -- War (Darius Rucker) -- Three little birds (Tracy Chapman) -- Rasta man chant (Busta Rhymes & Julian Marley) -- Kinky reggae (Chris Robinson & Damian Marley) --...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2000
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ONESummary: From the 1950s, when his sound system ruled Kingston's dancehalls, through to his untimely passing early in 1975, Arthur 'Duke' Reid remained a giant of the Jamaican music industry, playing, promoting and producing some of the most important and influential recordings ever to see issue on the island. Such was the quality of his work that long after his old friend, Sonia Pottinger had acquired...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRETosh, Peter.
Contents: Brand new second hand (Peter Tosh & the Wailers) -- Maga dog (Peter Tosh) -- Skanky dog (Peter Tosh & Winston Scotland) -- Boney dog (The Now Generation) -- Maingy dog (Bunny Flip) -- Fat dog (Joe Gibbs & the Love Generation) -- The crimson pirate (Peter Tosh) -- Rightful ruler (Peter Tosh & U. Roy) -- Four hundred years (Peter Tosh & the Wailers) -- Moon dust (Peter Tosh) -- Ambitious beggar...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trojan Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TOSPerry, Lee
Contents: Dyon-Anaswa -- Return of the super ape -- Tell me something good -- Bird in hand -- Crab yars -- Jah Jah Ah natty dread -- Psyche & Trim -- The Lion -- Huzza a hana -- High rankin Sammy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cleopatra Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE PERCulture (Musical group)
Contents: Too long in slavery -- Garvey -- Trod on -- Weeping -- Production something -- Pyaka -- Dog a go nyam dog -- Black rose (aka stand up and fight) -- Children of Israel.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Heart Beat 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE CULMarley, Bob.
Contents: Chant down Babylon (2:35) -- Buffalo soldier (4:16) -- Jump Nyabinghi (3:43) -- Mix up, mix up (5:07) -- Give thanks & praises (3:15) -- Blackman redemption (3:33) -- Trench Town (3:12) -- Stiff necked fools (3:24) -- I know (3:19) -- Rastaman live up! (5:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuff Gong 1990