REGGAE ICON Robert Nesta Marley’s face, voice and songs are easily recognised the world over. His iconic, larger-than-life persona is captured in a biopic, Bob Marley: One Love, now in cinemas around the globe. This Paramount production is getting.
Revivalism is a folk religion in Jamaica that evolved from the Great Revival of the early 1860s as a syncretism of African spirituality and European religiosity. It is replete with symbolism, which is significantly misunderstood by even some.
THE EDITOR, Madam: Norman Washington Manley died on September 2, 1969. In the poem The Tightrope Walker, published in the 1969 Christmas edition of Public Opinion, as a tribute to the N.W. Manley, Dennis Scott wrote: …You measure a man by the.
THE EDITOR, Madam: It is as clear as the midday sun, the universe’s brightest star shining in all its strength, that Jamaica needs to stop, look, and act. On an arc from Cromwell’s sending of Admiral Penn and General Venables in 1655 to the.
The Jamaica Gleaner has been publishing some extracts from articles that appeared in the Jamaica Journal, calling attention to the richness and variety of the contents of that venerable publication. The latest installment is from an article by John Rushford on the vine Jamaicans call John Crow Bead and its links to the Christmas dancing…