Listening Closely to Bob Marley and the Wailers: Race, Religion and Radicalism in the Seventies

How can we locate Bob Marley and the Wailers in the global Black political upheaval of the late 60s and early 70s? How can we understand the influences that helped to forge Marley’s perspectives, from Garveyism, to Rastafarianism, Black Power and other local radical trends? How in turn did Marley and the Wailers music impact upon and help to influence popular movements, from anti-War movements in the United States, to anti-nuclear movements in Europe, anti colonial struggles in Africa and Oceania, postcolonial resistance against neocolonialism in the Caribbean, and above all, the anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa? How might we understand Marley’s Rastafarian ideology and what were its peculiarities as an ideology of human liberation? And more than four decades after Marley's death, what, if anything, remains of his message in a post-postcolonial time?