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Could You Be Loved?

Could You Be Loved?. Ryan O’Connell. Early Life. Born in Nine Miles, Jamaica February 6, 1945 Father Minor colonial functionary Mother Young, black peasant woman . “Mixed Race” Child. Hybridity Poverty Blackness “ Livity ” (Rastafarian meaning of whole way of life) Racial Hierarchy

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Could You Be Loved?

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  1. Could You Be Loved? Ryan O’Connell

  2. Early Life • Born in Nine Miles, Jamaica • February 6, 1945 • Father • Minor colonial functionary • Mother • Young, black peasant woman

  3. “Mixed Race” Child • Hybridity • Poverty • Blackness • “Livity” (Rastafarian meaning of whole way of life) • Racial Hierarchy • Drive and Ambition • Pursue cultural identity • Upbringing helped him understand the world

  4. Messages/Meaning • Political • Poetic • Societal • Marley emphasizes love as a main message • Romantic, sexual • Playful, boastful

  5. “Marley saw that a similar commitment could be fused with older Jamaican traditions which usefully blurred the line between cultural, ethical, spiritual, and political action” (Gilroy 356). • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7I_hjJjKz0

  6. Secondary View • No substantive political or philosophical outlook • Feeling and instinct rather than intellect • Stoner • Music for enhancement

  7. Bobmarley.com • Merchandise • Marijuana paraphernalia • “Rasta-wear”

  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i-gcWdBUb8

  9. Transnational Appeal • Sameness • Subjectivity • Solidarity • “The last rockstar…the first ‘world music’ figure” (Gilroy 349) • Emphasizes • Power • Exploitation • Indifference

  10. Transnational Appeal Continued • “Color of the skin no more significant than the color of the eyes” (348) • Spiritual • Political • Commercial • Translates ethical and political insights into: • Languages • Traditions • Idioms

  11. `1999 Time Magazine “Most Important Pop Recording of the 20th Century”

  12. Race making difference • Large crossover audience • Political Aspirations • Bland • Saleable • Appealing • Enjoyment • “thrill of vicariously inhabiting his rebel blackness”

  13. Peace, One Love Concert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNuInpPKEeg

  14. Music & Words • Symbol of resistance and resilience • “He articulated the disarmingly intelligent voices of the poor” (Gilroy) • Political and poetic • Diaspora • Comfortably belonging (multiple places) • Racism • Different concerns bring cultures together

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