Word: marleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERFORMER: BOB MARLEY...
...many ways, Bob Marley was the beat. He was the first superstar from the Third World. He popularized, even personified, the rhythm of reggae and its roots in the pitiless poverty and mystical spiritual aspirations of the black Jamaican underclass. His voice sounded like sugarcane but cut like a switchblade. His love songs, like Guava Jelly, Stir It Up and Three Little Birds (included here in a previously unreleased and altogether ravishing alternate version), were lighted with a sexual fervor suggesting that passion itself is a kind of temporary redemption. His political songs, whether metaphorical (I Shot the Sheriff...
Stir It Up, written to his wife during an eight-month separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back...
...deep impact on his music. For those outside its mysteries, Rastafari seemed to combine Old Testament mysticism and a kind of pan-African call to arms with a liberal indulgence in sacramental ganja, or pot. Ganja has a fearful potency, but it isn't as strong as Marley's music. Rastafari remained arcane to most off-islanders, but Marley's devotion to it produced the last great soul music...
Heinicke was also in a position to ensure that the council didn't repeat mistakes made with the Suzanne Vega and Ziggy Marley concerts. But once again, the council did not gauge student interest in De La Soul, and the event drew only a tiny number...