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By MICHELLE TENHENGEL
Arts Editor
As the average discophile enters a
record store, he probably heads
toward Madonna's glossy latest hit,
Rat's newest tune, or some other
MTV garbage that has infiltrated the
shelves, but what about reggae?
"Reggae?" the shopper would ask,
"Ain't he that famous baseball player,
Reggae Jackson, of the California
Angels?"
But, reggae (not Reggie) is the
musical blood of the Jamaican
people that unites them in songs of
love, ganja, Jah and injustices
encountered by the Rastafarians .
followers of the Holy Piby which is
known as "The Black Man's Bible"
and led by Haile Selassie, the late
Ethiopian emperor, who believe the
black man will reign supreme
someday.
There are many reggae groups that
have outstanding songs and albums.
Performers such as Peter Tosh,
Yellowman, Aswad, Black Uhuru,
Steel Pulse, Toots and the Maytals,
Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker,
Bunny Livingston, Burning Spear,
The Slickers, Pablo Moses and
others have more than earned their
space on the record store shelves. But
the god of the reggae world, undoubt
week's Fake
TODAY
The Native AmericanIndian
3 -LL display of art, craft, poetry and
literature will end at Internationalist
Books.
Chamber Music from the Library
of Congress will feature young artists
from around the world in the library's
summer chamber festival. Selected
works from Milaud, Ulysses Kay,
Mozart, and Saint-Saens will be
performed at 9 p.m. on WUNC.
FRIDAY
ITootsie will be shown in the
Union Auditorium at 7 p.m. and
9:30 p.m.
The Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra with Lukas Foss, music
director and conductor will perform
selected works from BachSchoen
bert, Mozart, and Beethoven at 9 p.m
on WUNC.
The Raleigh Little Theatre will
present "Jack and The Beanstalk" at
10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. For reserva
tions call 821-3111.
C. W. Metcalf and Friends will
present mime theatre with one of the
master mimes in the country at 8 p.m.
at the ArtSchool.
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for fun, flexibility, strength, endurance,
concentration, relaxation, joy!
edly, is Bob Marley.
Marley, born in Jamaica Feb. 6,
1945, to an African mother named
Cedella Malcolm and a white English
father named Captain Norval Sin
clair Marley, broke onto the music
charts with the Wailers' first hit single
"Simmer Down" in late 1963, early
1964. "Simmer Down" was a plea to
the gangs of Jamaica to stop their
violence and halt the crimes that had
reached epidemic proportions.
However, the song and subsequent
releases with the same motif made
the street criminals celebrities. Not
until R & B greats Jimi Hendrix and
Sly Stone revitalized the reggae
sound by motivating the Wailers to
continue their music did reggae get
the attention it deserved.
Marley and the Wailers brought
attention to the social and political
problems people of the Third World,
particularly the Rastafarians, were
suffering at the hands of the white
man. Marley and the Wailers began
to weave their music with political
themes of injustices done by the
government and police to the Rastas.
"Rebel Music (3 O'clock Road
Block)" and "Them Belly Full (But
We Hungry)" brought to the atten
tion of the government that the
Hotel Europa will have Beach
Night in the King's Club starting at
9 p.m.
The Durham Theatre Guild will
present Lorraine Hansberry's drama
"The Sign in Sidney Brustein's
Window" at 8: 1 5 p.m. Please call 688
4259 for reservations.
SATURDAY
2C. W. Metcalf and Friends will
present mime theatre with one of
the country's premiere mimes at 8
p.m. at the ArtSchool.
The Durham Theatre Guild will
present its final performance of "The
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window"
by Lorraine Hansberry at 8:15 p.m.
Please call 688-4259 for reservations.
"The People's Pharmacy," with
pharmacologist Joe Graedon will
discuss on this week's show "Sports
and Fitness" with guests Dr. Robert
McMurray, Bob Leyes, and Chip
Span on WUNC at 8:30 a.m.
"Sophisticated Lady" with jazz
singer Carol Sloane will at at 10 a.m.
on WUNC 91.5 FM.
"Gary Shivers on Jazz" with
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oppressed blacks of the Jamaican
ghettos were a strong and volatile
political force.
After 11 records under the Island
label, Marley had reached stardom.
By 1976, he and the Wailers were
internationally known as a musical
and political force. Each concert on
their tours was a sell-out and millions
of albums were sold in countries in
which they never even performed.
For the years to follow, Marley
became a leading political and
spiritual figure until May 1981, when
he died of brain, liver, and lung
cancer. Buried with his Gibson guitar
and the Bible open to the 23rd Psalm,
he ended the first chapter of reggae
as it is known today.
Marley gave the music world many
reggae songs that are now standards
by which other reggae artists are
compared. Marley's most powerful
songs are the ones which make
political and social statements. For
example, "Get Up Stand Up" makes
political, social and religious state
ments such as "Stand up for your
rights" and "Mighty God is a living
man," which refers to Haile Selassie.
Another example is "Exodus," the
Wailers' album released in 1977. The
title song, "Exodus," is a message
..WUNC's general manager and res
ident jazz expert will air his show at
1 1 a.m.
"A Prairie Home Companion" will
present a "A Prairie Summer Home
Concert at 6 p.m. on WUNC.
SUNDAY
3 Sunday Jazz Series at the Art
School will present "Focusing on
the Blues," a concert of blues music
with Rich Ruhlen from 7 to 10 p.m.
The North Carolina Museum of
Art will present films on French art
featuring "The Impressionists,"
"Degas," "Renior," and "Cezzane"
starting at 3 p.m. The admission is
free.
"A Prairie Home Companion" will
be aired at 3 p.m. on WUNC.
"International Festival" with the
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
will be aired with Riccardo Chailly
as conductor. Featured works will be
Ernst Bechert: Four Pieces for
Orchestra; Bartok: Piano Concerto
No. 3; and Beethoven: Symphony
No. 2. Show time is at 9 p.m. on
WUNC.
rocked for jestke
about Jah's people and the suffering
that has been inflicted upon them.
"Men and women will fight you
down When ya see Jah light Let me
tell you, if you're not wrong Ever
ything is all right Walk, through the
roads of creation We're the gener
ationWho trod through great trib
ulationExodus, movement of Jah
people ..."
Marley was a musical prophet who
preached the words of love, peace
and brotherhood for all. Yet he held
a very powerful position as a spokes
man for the Jamaican Rastamen.
Marley's life was even threatened on
Dec. 3, 1976. In 1979, the Wailers'
"Survival" album contained a song
about the assassination attempt on
Marley's life called "Ambush in the
Night" with the lyrics: "See them .
fighting, for power But they know
not the hour So they bribing with
their guns, spare parts, and money
Trying to belittle our integrity They
say what we know Is just what they
teach us We're so ignorant Every
time they can reach us Through
political strategyThey keep us
hungry When you gonna get some
food Your brother got to be your
enemy." .
Other songs that are considered
Bob Marley's greatest hits are
"The Orange County Special" will
present an unknown variety of
traditional, folk, jazz, and blues at
9 a.m. on WXYC 89.3 FM.
"Jazz on Sunday Afternoon" will
be aired on WXYC at 12 p.m.
"Northern Hemisphere Live" will
have special guest Ken Friedman, a
record producer and congressional
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Laminating $1 and up
All Done While You wai
Lost?
"Kaya," "'amming," "I Shot the
Sheriff," "Is This Love," "Redemp
tion Song," "One Love People Get
Ready," "Natural Mystic," "Guilti
ness," "Easy Skanking," and "Three
Little Birds" that should be included
in any reggae collection.
By the early 1970s, reggae had
expanded its popularity into main
stream English and American music.
Stars in the pop industry like Stevie
: Wonder, the Rolling Stones and the
Clash recognized and incorporated
the reggae-funk sound in their music.
It was not until 1974, when Eric
Clapton dropped a bomb on the
music world by reaching the Number
One spot on English and U.S. charts
with his version of Marley's "I Shot
the Sheriff," that reggae and Marley
had earned their rightful spot in
music history.
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