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 | 7, Sep 2022
Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017 – In Various Light (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). Co-authored with Helen Goethals. Coming some five years after the death of poet, playwright, teacher and painter Derek Walcott, this book brings together essays,...
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...
