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SKA An Oral History |
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By Heather Augustyn With foreword by Cedella Marley Published by McFarland, 2010 |
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New book by Heather Augustyn $12.00 w/ Free Shipping Displaced from his oppressive yard, Johnny finds no work for a trombonist in the recording studios of Kingston. A life of crime as a rude boy is an easy way out, but will Johnny join his friends, or will he confront his past to realize his true potential? Set in Kingston, Jamaica, 1966, Johnny Too Bad is an historical fiction set in a record-heat summer when ska transitioned to rocksteady and politics defined the country’s identity. Go inside the musicians’ studios, the Rasta camps, the streets and the tenement yards to witness first-hand life during a time of both creation and destruction. |
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Ska: An Oral History — Johnny Too Bad — Man in the Street: The Genius and Madness of the World’s Greatest Trombonist Don Drummond |
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$31.50 USD Autographed & Free Shipping
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Forthcoming from Heather Augustyn is the new book Man in the Street: The Genius and Madness of the World’s Greatest Trombonist Don Drummond. Augustyn spent time in Kingston researching this comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover whose lives were devastated by tragedy. Read about Drummond’s “unusual mind” that created music both powerful and haunting, but a mind that was also so disturbed he murdered his girlfriend, Margarita the Rhumba Queen, in a fit of jealousy. Hear Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson recount the trial in which he defended Drummond, the recollections of Margarita’s best friend who helped identify her body that fateful night, the sorrow of Margarita’s own daughter, and many of Don Drummond’s friends, classmates, fellow musicians, and teachers, who tell of Drummond’s brilliant and influential talent. Man in the Street also features dozens of photographs to help the reader visualize this important historical story. |
