Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution, by David Austin

Layne, Louisa Olufsen

doi:10.1163/22134360-09403031

New West Indian Guide

2020

DOI: 10.1163/22134360-09403031

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Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution, by David Austin

Louisa Olufsen Layne

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“…For example, late 1970s performances by Linton Kwesi Johnson of his poetry set to music were central to my experience of London at the time and an earlier part of my anticolonial education. 'Reggae fi Radni', Linton Kwesi Johnson's tribute to the West Indian historian and anti-colonial activist Walter Rodney, is discussed by David Austin (2018) in his biography of Johnson. Johnson was inspired both by Rodney and his mentor C. L. R. James -another West Indian historian and a polymath, who was alive, in his 80s and resident in the upstairs flat above the Race Today office in London when Johnson was creating this work.…”

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In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity

Bhowmik¹,

Rogaly

2023

The Sociological Review

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As racial nationalist regimes across the globe consolidate their power through their interconnections, so their efforts to divide people along lines of ‘race’, ethnicity, faith, nationality, immigration status and differentiated citizenship laws continue apace. With social media trolling and ‘fake news’ increasingly used as additional sources of power for the radical right, challenging racial nationalist narratives requires innovative forms of affective politics. One among these that can build transnational solidarity and also potentially celebrate working-class cultures is music. This article explores connections being made through music within and across national boundaries and across time. Case studies include music developed by those struggling against discriminatory (anti-Muslim) citizenship laws and state violence in India, and socialist internationalist Yiddish music – originally developed to protest against both anti-Semitic pogroms and exploitative employment conditions and currently being revived in the US, Europe and elsewhere.

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2023

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Exploring Women Dub as Apparatus of Performative Resistance

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2022

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While “dub” poetry, a sub-genre of performance poetry, is a male-dominated field women dub poets have entered this field with the help of male poets and then gradually carved their place within the genre as independent contributors and established themselves as a resistant force. When women dub poets write about the issues of general politics, they are welcomed but when they focus on women’s problems and gender questions, domestic affairs they are often neglected and sometimes criticised. The question remains how could women, being the representatives of traditional domesticity can/ should adhere to address/ challenge/ use the ‘public’ platforms of performance surrendered and occupied by men. Even if one or two women do so, should they remain under the shadow of their male counterparts and follow the ideals directly or indirectly dictated by them or should they set their own terms? Through various modes of performance women poets often defy the male policy of exclusivity. While male dub poets make their own rules, women poets often disobey the male diktat. This paper wishes to explore how performances of African descended women poets, especially from the Caribbeans, recurringly engage in a dialogue challenging patriarchal poetic and performative elitism and how it often brings tabooed ideas, domesticity, and other areas of “women’s activity” into the forefront of literary arenas and in doing so they forward the genre to a more flexible, more adaptive, and richer form of poetic expression.

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Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution, by David Austin

Abstract: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity

In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity

Exploring Women Dub as Apparatus of Performative Resistance

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