Mutabaruka
Jamaica
Born: 26 December 1952
Genres: Reggae, International
Styles: Dub Poetry, Reggae/Caribbean, Dub, Political Reggae, Reggae/Caribbean
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His poems have given voice to a nation and helped forge an entirely new genre of music, dub/rhythm poetry. Revolutionary, fiery, scathing, and stinging, Mutabaruka's words are as potent on paper as on CD, and so the literary community needed to create a new term just for his works -- meta-dub. Born in Rae Town, Jamaica, on December 12, 1952, Allan Hope first realized the power of the word when he was in his teens. It was the '60s; the Black Power movement was at its height, and numerous radical leaders were putting their thoughts and histories ...
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