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 Boboshantiits drumming, chanting, and singingis 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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2017]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 282-291 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ethiopia
/ Rastafari
/ Drumming
/ Singing
/ Origin
/ Influence
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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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