Jesus Dub Theology, Music and Social Change.pdf

Jesus Dub

Dub is an act of deconstruction, where a reggae musician takes apart

the key elements of a music track, and repositions them, transforming

the original, enabling new ways of hearing and understanding. Dub is

not neutral, it enriches music with political, spiritual and cultural

inﬂuences, challenging the establishment.

Jesus Dub is Robert Beckford ’s exploration of the dialogue between

two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the

dancehall. Beckford shows how Dub, one of the central features of

dancehall culture, can be mobilised as a framework for re-evaluating

theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the inﬂuence

of a guiding theme. Engaging with the social and cultural heritage which

informs Christian African Caribbean culture, including the inﬂuence of

slavery, Revival Christianity and working class Jamaican life; Black

theology; and music ranging from post-war Sound System to American

Hip Hop, Jesus Dub is an exploration of how throughout history, music

and faith have been transformed in response to racialised oppression.

Finally, Beckford demonstrates that dub style appears in the teachings

of Jesus, and that dub is a tool which can provide new ways of

envisaging and practising spiritual gifts and ﬁnancial giving, proposing

a more inclusive theology for everyone.

Robert Beckford teaches at the University of Birmingham, in the

department of American and Canadian Studies. He has written several

books in the field of Black theology and Black culture in Britain,

including God and the Gangs (2004), God of the Rahtid (2003), Dread

and the Pentecostal (2000) and Jesus is Dread (1998). As well as writing

and teaching, Robert is a British Academy of Film and Television

(BAFTA) award-winning documentary presenter, working with Channel

4 television.

Jesus Dub

Theology, Music and

Social Change

Robert Beckford

First published 2006

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Beckford, Robert.

Jesus dub : theology, music, and social change / Robert Beckford.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-415-31018-0 (hardback : alk. paper) – ISBN 0-415-31019-9

(pbk. : alk. paper) – ISBN 0-203-41339-3 (e-book)

1. Dub (Music)–Jamaica–Religious aspects. 2. Dub (Music)–Social

aspects. 3. Blacks–Caribbean Area–Religion. 4. Pentecostalism

–Caribbean Area. I. Title.

ML3918.R44B43 2006

261.5’78—dc22

2006001787

ISBN10: 0–415–31018–0

ISBN13: 978–0–415–31018–5 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0–415–31019–9

ISBN13: 978–0–415–31019–2 (pbk)

ISBN10: 0–203–41339–3

ISBN13: 978–0–203–41339–5 (ebk)

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