MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: I Wanna Be Sedated, Proto-Punk, Heteroflexibility
30 Jan 2015
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The reggae genre has an integral link with the rastafarian religion: Rastafarianism was founded by josiah marcus garvey (1887-1940), a jamaican writer and political leader who inspired a back to africa repatriation movement among black americans in the 1920s. Before leaving jamaica for the united states in 1916, garvey wrote: look to. Africa for the crowning of a black king; he shall be the redeemer a phrase that was taken quite literally as prophecy by garvey"s followers. In 1930, when haile selassie ( power of the. Trinity ) was crowned king of the african nation of ethiopia, preachers in kingston saw this as confirmation of garvey"s prediction and proceeded to scrutinize the old testament in search of passages that supported the authenticity of selassie"s divinity. The rastafarians" reinterpretation of the bible focused on passages that dealt with slavery, salvation, and the apocalyptic consequences that would eventually be visited upon oppressors (collectively referred to in the religion as babylon ).
