Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta - Hardcover

Howell, Bill "Blade"

 
9781636141725: Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1636141722 ISBN 13: 9781636141725
Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S., 2024

Inhaltsangabe

IN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests against British colonial rule. Adding a religious element to Marcus Garvey’s message of African independence, he founded an organization called the Ethiopian Salvation Society. Though informed by Christian values, Howell made a significant break from the Bible and extended the idea of divinity to a living man, Emperor Haile Selassie I, the king of Ethiopia since 1930.

Labeled as “seditious,” and becoming a target for police harassment, Howell and his followers moved in 1940 to an old estate in the parish of St. Catherine. They named their land Pinnacle, and for the next sixteen years built a self-reliant, egalitarian community. Jamaican journalists coined a name for the growing group: the “Ras Tafarites,” or “Rastas.”

In Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta, Bill “Blade” Howell—born in Pinnacle in 1942—offers his firsthand account of this utopian settlement that would ultimately give birth to the Rastafari movement. Here, he provides a crucial and highly informed new perspective on the Rastafari subculture that Bob Marley would later help to spread across the globe.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

BILL "BLADE" HOWELL was born to Leonard Percival Howell and Tenneth Bent-Howell in 1942 at Pinnacle in Sligoville, St. Catherine, on the island of Jamaica. Howell went on to become one of the first Black art directors working in New York advertising agencies in the 1970s. He has been living in New York for over fifty years.

Hélène Lee has been writing about African and Caribbean music for decades. She is best known for The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism, her groundbreaking volume on the founder of the Rasta movement. A longtime friend of the Howell family, Lee convinced Leonard Howell's son Bill to share his own memories of Pinnacle.

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Verlag
Akashic Books,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1636141722
ISBN 13 
9781636141725
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
203
Herausgeber
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