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1) Legend
Publisher
Island Def Jam Music Group
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Legend is a personal, musical compilation of Marley's most popular in-concert performances and video clips. Includes rare interview footage and exclusive tour clips.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chris Salewicz interviewed Marley in Jamaica in 1979. In this thorough and detailed account of Marley's life and the world in which he grew up and came to dominate, Salewicz brings to life not only the Rastafari religion and the musical scene in Jamaica but also the spirit of the man himself.
5) Marley
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into poverty in rural Jamaica, Bob Marley became a prophet for the world's oppressed, preaching peace, love, and understanding with a universal language - song. On what would have been Marley's seventy-fifth birthday, Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald combines unheard tracks, unseen footage, and intimate interviews to paint a definitive portrait of the legendary artist. Featuring a combination of music concerts, documentary footage and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on forty years of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants, many speaking publicly for the first time, to offer an oral history depicting the reggae icon's life.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Wailers from their upbringing in the slums of Kingston to their first recordings and superstardom through the lens of Jamaican politics, heritage, race, religion, and the cultural revolution taking place in the 1970s.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
13) Greetings, Leroy
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first day at a new school is nerve-wracking enough, never mind when it's in a new country! In this lively picture book from award-winning storyteller Itah Sadu, Roy realizes he may come to love his new home in Canada as much as he loves his old home in Jamaica."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
174 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way to the most fabulous world tours and adulation. Beyond...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bob Marley: One Love is now a major film from Paramount Pictures.
This is the classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.
Bob Marley left an indelible mark on modern music, both as a reggae pioneer and as an enduring cultural icon. Catch a Fire, now a classic rock biography, delves into the life of this man, the leader of a musical and spiritual revolution that continues
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