Reggae Scrapbook, by Roger Steffens

Reggae Scrapbook, by Roger Steffens

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Guiding us on this colorful book-length journey is one of the men who introduced reggae to America and helped rock the world with its syncopated beat, Roger Steffens. Through lectures, books, magazine articles, radio, and television, Steffens has shared his knowledge of reggae from coast to coast. He is the world’s premier archivist and collector of reggae memorabilia, and brings the best of his in-depth interviews with such reggae legends as Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, and “Toots” Hibbert to this unique scrapbook.Covering topics such as “Roots and Ska,” “Rock Steady,” “The Golden Age,” “Rockers, Digital and Dance Hall,” and “Internationalization,” and supplemented with sidebar features on historic figures, styles, and events, Reggae Scrapbook demonstrates the bold statement made by the rise of this irresistible musical and social force. Already the book is gaining powerful critical comment - "Rich in political, religious and herbaceous context, this lively package is primer for the uninitiated and treasure trove for the fan," raved the San Francisco Chronicle.

Reggae Scrapbook, by Roger Steffens

• Amazon Sales Rank: #936628 in Books
• Published on: 2015-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x .60" w x 10.90" l, 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Reggae Scrapbook, by Roger Steffens

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Though less than comprehensive, Steffens and Simon's illustrated history of reggae music is nonetheless essential reading on the subject. The duo have spent decades covering the genre (Steffens as the founder of reggae magazine The Beat, Simon as an award-winning photographer), and they enthusiastically share their bounty in this interactive scrapbook packed with pull-out ephemera like stickers, postcards, set lists and flyers. The equivalent of spending a long evening with a friendly, eager collector, it's hard not to get caught up in the authors' enthusiasm. Fans will find all their favorites here in bright, full-color photographs, from lesser-known but seminal figures like Joe Higgs to legendary figures like Lee "Scratch" Perry, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley. The authors frequently share their own vibrant, first-hand experiences with the performers: Judy Mowatt discusses a performance in Zimbabwe with Marley that turned into a riot; eccentric Perry provides a tour of the "Throne Room," his home studio; and Steffens recounts the time he presented Peter Tosh with a marijuana bud the size of a cricket bat. Augmented with a DVD featuring a handful of interviews with artists and hundreds of candid snapshots, it's the next best thing to a trip to Jamaica. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review "In the gorgeous new version of Reggae Scrapbook, renowned author and reggae archivist Roger Steffans teams up with photo editor and award-winning photographer Peter Simon to deliver a stunning visual document of Jamaican music, including album art, rare posters and photographs of numerous musicians."—Rolling Stone

About the Author Roger Steffens founded the Roger Steffens Reggae Archives, the world’s largest collection of Bob Marley materials and other reggae memorabilia. Steffens is the co-host of the internationally syndicated Planet Reggae radio show and the author of several books on Marley and reggae history.Toots Hibbert and his band, Toots and the Maytals, are ska and reggae legends. The winner of both a Grammy Award and the Order of Jamaica, Toots has toured and collaborated with such bands as Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, and the Rolling Stones.Over the course of his nearly 40 year career, Peter Simon has covered an eclectic range of subjects documenting everything from the spirit of the free love and protest-filled 1960s and the greatest names in rock 'n' roll, reggae, and pop music to the action of major league baseball and portraits of the most celebrated personalities of our time.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. a reggae bounty By reggae culture reader Steffens and photographer Peter Simon, two long-time chroniclers of Jamaican music, have emptied their files into a deeply satisfying guided tour of reggae in chronologico-topical form. Simon's photography has been seen in such works as Reggae Bloodlines and Reggae International. As many readers of this magazine know, Steffens has written and lectured extensively about Bob Marley and reggae music and is also co-founder of The Beat. Reggae Scrapbook brims with the contributors' knowledge as well as their infectious love of the genre and the culture that produces it. And their memorabilia is now ours, in handy facsimile form. Produced in the same vein as James Henke's recent Marley Legend, Reggae Scrapbook surveys reggae from origins to present and handsomely houses removable reggae artifacts by the fistful. Page after page, Reggae Scrapbook delights. If you're like me, you'll get your hands on this and wonder whether to read it properly as one should with all books, from start-to-finish, or consume it giddily, turning at random for the treats. At one point, the Scrapbook opens to a splashy little 12-page magazine gummed to the page about the phenomenon of Jamaican dances. Page 43 contains an envelope with three gorgeous postcard-sized photo/illustrations of Haile Selassie. Fastened elsewhere in the book are concert handbills (pages 11, 91 and 129), two panels of peel-away stickers (page 81), miniature reproductions of singles in little white sleeves (pages 85 and 139), some of them autographed by the artists. (Among the latter is Cornell Campbell, who writes a sleeve note correcting a mis-identified 45 of "You're No Good.") Steffens and Simon, mighty repro men for the reggae generation, leave no dead space anywhere in this deluxe volume.Lodged in a pocket inside the front cover is a dvd culled from the many hours of interviews Steffens has conducted over the years. Steffens likes to query for defining moments and he elicits fascinating replies. After a sound check one night, Joseph Hill narrates, with a riveting performative quality, his harrowing near-fatal encounter with Jamaican police. Luciano explains his decision to leave a high-profile concert in mid-performance in order to trod forward to the hills for sabbatical. Betty Wright gives a memorable explication of the charisma she witnessed of Bob Marley when she toured as opening act for the band in 1979. Judy Mowatt describes the pandemonium of the Wailers' epochal Zimbabwe concerts of 1980. The Wailers Band, Peter Tosh, the Heptones and Alton Ellis are the other interview subjects. The memories and insights are rendered with engagingly varied levels of formality. The readings shift from overview to close focus. While not exhaustive, the narrative is invariably absorbing and inclusive of career surveys of seminal artists and many wonderful sidebars ranging from aspects of Jamaican culture to such things as a fable composed by Gregory Isaacs and a verbatim eyewitness account by Junior Reid of the shooting death of Hugh Mundell. The book weighs heaviest on artists from the 70s and 80s, although coverage of soundsystems, festivals and a few dancehall artists bring the subject forward to the now moment. Steffens writes with authority and wit and a heightened ear for poetic utterance.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Truly beautiful book: music, social history, Jamaica... reggae! By Alison Toon I bought this book after listeniing to Roger Steffans stories at a Walier's show. He has collected reggae -- many rooms of it, in all shapes sounds and forms -- for many years. This book is just beautiful. On receiving mine, I immediately ordered another, as a surprise gift... they loved it too!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A beautiful chronicle By dma202 Jamaica is simultaneously an old country (a crucible of colonialism and slavery for 400 years) and a new country (only independent since 1962). Similarly, reggae is an old music, rooted in tradition (influences range from the griots of West Africa to the old testament) and a new, pathbreaking music (the originator of the term "reggae," Toots Hibbert (who wrote the book's forward), isn't old enough to collect social security, and what we know today as the "remix" was invented in a West Kingston ghetto). Jamaica isn't exactly a world power. But somehow, over 40 some-odd years, its music has spread from gullybanks and zinc shacks to the far corners of the earth.If you get this book, you will understand why. Steffens and Simon are a "dream team" - a combination of the premier reggae critic and the top photographer. The book, which is conversational in tone, is jam-packed with interesting lore and arresting images of colorful people, places and memorabilia. It's a loving chronicle of a fascinating culture that the authors have been intensely involved with for 30+ years.To top it off, the book includes a whole host of little "surprises" and a DVD that are themselves probably worth the price...To be clear, the book has no pretensions of being a complete history of the music, so if you want (for example) a long exigesis of the skinhead/reggae association, as one reviewer mentioned, you'll need to look elsewhere. Rest assured that most fans will find the book enormously satisfying.The bottom line: If you like reggae, you will love this book, and if you don't like reggae, you'll probably like it by the time you're through.

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