King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae
362 pages | © 2020
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: King Alpha’s Song
1 Hybridity and Jamaican Music
2 Music of the Black Atlantic
3 Jamaica to Toronto
4 Place and Meaning in Toronto’s Reggae Text
5 The Bridge Builders
6 Blackness and Whiteness
7 In Search of the Canadian Sound
8 A Strange Land
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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