From slave times to the present the proverb has been a mainstay in African-American communication. This study of African-American proverbs is the first to probe deeply into these meanings and contexts.
Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, the Itals, the Ethiopians-they all dropped dazzling proverbs into their best known reggae tunes. Swami Anand Prahlad looks at the contexts and origins of these proverbs, using them as a cultural sheet music toward understanding the history of Jamaican culture, Rastafari religion, and the music.
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