{"product_id":"could-you-be-loved-rastafari-reggae-bob-marley-africa-scattered-for-rhythm-of-spirit-of-oneness-for-the-world-9781628572681","title":"Could You Be Loved: Rastafari-Reggae Bob Marley: Africa Scattered for Rhythm of Spirit of Oneness for the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tekla Mekfet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Reggae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, POLITICS \u0026amp; CULTURE, AFRICAN MUSIC FUNCTION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCOULD YOU BE LOVED is of all Humankind acknowledging shared origin for Progress with Peace. \" . . insightful . . incisive and instructive . . a beautiful poetic move . . brilliant . . author, poet, philosopher Tekla Mekfet relates Bob Marley's poetics to African philosophy, the Bible and the problems of Babylon as we encounter them in Jamaica and the world. . . helps to resolve the tension between the individual and the community, in Rasta poetics . . Historical memory . . clues to liberation in the present. Out of history and prophecy . . philosophy in Rastafari offers unaccustomed wide practical application.\" (Dr. Noel Erskine, Professor of Theology \u0026amp; Ethics, Emory University, USA). \" . . deep understanding of world politics . . knowledge of the world's literary works whether fiction or treatise . . wide knowledge of music of all genres . . erudite . . encyclopedic . . for every and anyone.\" (Dr. Erna Brodber, sociologist-historian-novelist, University of the West Indies).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"In his own thoroughly original way Tekla Mekfet evokes the largesse of spirit and innovative rhetorical performances of Walt Whitman . . Whitman opened up the space of the line in American verse; he had an agile poetic persona; he was chronicler, seer, prophet. In our time Ras Mekfet is accomplishing much the same through his vision and voice.\" (Michael Kuelker, Professor of English, St. Charles Community College, Rastafari-Reggae researcher, DJ, Missouri). Structure is as vocabulary item, social commentary, music of meaning, \"Often, life is not nice neat sentences'. The index invites piece-mealing focus on such as The Word, Logic RHYTHM Household-Community, Reality, Freedom, Whiteness, or Oneness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVaried subjects are explored as symbiotic - as could be related to Spinoza's All is One and The One is Divine', to 'Selassie is The Chapel', to Hegel's 'God' dwelling within Humankind \u0026amp; permanently pervading the universe - related to shared African principles of an all-manifesting all-embracing 'NTU', or JAH of Rastrafari. Of Nature's Logic \u0026amp; Kant's 'Categorical Imperative' for universal oneness. Concept 'Babylon' de-constructed throughout, as is 'Zion'. Of 'Concrete Jungle', The City, Marketed 'God', Moral Relativity, \"life-long insecurity\". \" . . the heavy and the weary weight \/ Of all this unintelligible world \/ Is lightened.\" Mekfet invites you to be free 'of being psychologically blind. For YOU, are living of some measure \u0026amp; mix of philosophy . . that you may be living unperceived.\" to be recognized \"for sense of options for direction. .\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Mother Africa's Philosophy, Rastafari, The Bible, \u0026amp; cross-refs philosophy of West \u0026amp; East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Philosophy in Reggae, Jazz, Dancehall Music: Atavistic Appeal African Rhythms Worldwide\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Culture of Politics, Mis-Education, Violence \u0026amp; Masculinity in 'Jamaica'\/'Carry-beyond'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- A Rastafari Journey, Jamaica \u0026amp; Social Prejudice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Animism \u0026amp; Literary Imagery. Multi-cultural imagery 'Christ'\/Re-patria-tion\/Ancestor Worship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- 'Israel' \u0026amp; 'Jerusalem' not as geographical entities, but as universal concepts for social organization related to Rhythm of Ecology \u0026amp; Bio-diversity, the Cosmos as a single organism, \u0026amp; Bio-mimicry - all antithesis of concept of 'Babylon'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher's website: \u003c\/strong\u003e http: \/\/sbprabooks.com\/TeklaMekfet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strategic Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45299324682391,"sku":"9781628572681","price":1849.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781628572681.webp?v=1767105478","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/could-you-be-loved-rastafari-reggae-bob-marley-africa-scattered-for-rhythm-of-spirit-of-oneness-for-the-world-9781628572681","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}