Reggae music carried the Africanization of Jamaican culture through Rastafarianism

Evidence

I played Bob [Marley] in extenso and made this interpretation of the importance of Marley and the, as it were, Africanization of Jamaican culture through Rastafarianism. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 999

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to cultural politics as constitutive (not primary) — Marley as instance of resistance lived through music, echoing the prior passage’s claim that cultural disaffiliation signals the unresolved within the conjuncture. — connects to: Rastafarian reggae rescued second-generation British blacks from identity crisis; Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials; Rastafarianism read scripture against the grain to decolonize Caribbean minds — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 859 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Rastafarian reggae rescued second-generation British blacks from identity crisis; Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials; Rastafarianism read scripture against the grain to decolonize Caribbean minds — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 859 (+6 more)