Marvin Sterling: 3 books
Babylon East
Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international...
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...
No Fear
How Never to Be Afraid of Anything Yes! Anything!
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2000
Are you the sort of person who is not content simply to judge life according to surface appearances? Do you seek answers to the deeper questions of human existence? Do you feel a profound yearning for something "higher" than a merely materialisic view of the world? Are you curious about...