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Blood and Fire – Roots, Reggae and Rastafari. Part 1/2. Don Letts explores how Rastafarianism helped Jamaica recover its identity and how it affected Jamaican and British music.

Blood and Fire – Roots, Reggae and Rastafari

Part 1/2. Don Letts reveals how the Rastafarian movement helped Jamaica recover its lost identity after years of British colonial rule and slavery and explores the movement's profound effect on Jamaican music, culminating in the emergence in the 1970s of one of the most exciting types of reggae – roots reggae.

He also looks at how roots and the Rasta message found their way to the UK and spawned British-based reggae bands.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 7 Apr 2008 21:30

Broadcast

  • Mon 7 Apr 2008 21:30