MU100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Rastafari, Dreadlocks
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Fell in 1600 because of violent islamic intervention. Had the ear of the people and the emperor. When slaves were brought to jamaica their instruments were taken away. The slaves would escape into the jungle and construct drums. This drumming was used as communication, to alert other slaves of their presence. In 1970s a new government came into power that was pro africa. They took a strange, disunified religion and made it into a jamaican religion. Dreadlocks: mane of the lion of judah, a power symbol, symbol of the old testament. Worshipped the emperor, believed he was going to bring in new age. Bobo ashanti most orthodox, religious sect of rastafarianism. Bobo ashanti stay on hill so they can face the ocean, believe british ships are going to sail in from the horizon and take them back to africa. Reggae forms stopped developing with death of bob marley in 1980. Music becomes reggae when its infused with religious rastafarian elements.
