by Eric Doumerc | 5, Feb 2024
The Life and Times of Joseph Hill and Culture (APS Books,2019) This book can be seen as a modest tribute to a great band, but there is another motive which is linked to my work as an academic specialising in Caribbean cultures. My own field as a researcher is the link...
by Eric Doumerc | 5, Feb 2024
Burning Spear (APS Books, 2023). This book looks at various aspects of Spear’s long career, and starts with an annotated discography and biographical chapter which serves an an introduction to the next three chapters. The second chapter examines Burning...
by Eric Doumerc | 6, Jul 2022
I-Roy (APS Publications, 2022). The prolific and talented Jamaican deejay, I-ROY (Roy Samuel Reid 1942-1999) enjoyed a hugely successful recording career in the 1970s but died of heart failure relatively young after two decades of declining health and output. Belated...
by Eric Doumerc | 13, Jun 2022
Jamaican Music in England (APS Publications, 2018) This book looks at the Jamaican presence in England between the 1960s and the 1980s from a musical point of view. The period covered concerns three crucial decades in the growth and development of Jamaican popular...
by Eric Doumerc | 13, Jun 2022
Dub Poets in Their Own Words (APS PUblications, 2017) is a journey into dub poetry from the dub poets’ point of view. Contrary to other publications on this controversial art form, it proposes to let the practioners of the genre speak. Dub poetry has been...
