How Can We Sing King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land? The Sacred Music of the Boboshanti Rastafari

This paper explores the sacred music of the Boboshanti, a Rastafari order founded in Jamaica in 1958. The music of the Boboshanti—its drumming, chanting, and singing—is similar to that of the more well-known Nyahbinghi Order with which most researchers of Rastafari are familiar, but it has its own d...

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Main Author: Merritt, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 282-291
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ethiopia / Rastafari / Drumming / Singing / Origin / Influence
IxTheo Classification:AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBR Latin America
RD Hymnology
TK Recent history
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