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Dub poetry has been a vehicle for political and social commentary, [7] with none of the braggadocio often associated with the dancehall. The odd love-song or elegy appears, but dub poetry is predominantly concerned with politics and social justice, commonly voiced through a commentary on current events (thus sharing these elements with dancehall and "conscious" or "roots" reggae music).
He began writing poetry in 1971, [5] and became the first inmate to be allowed to perform with a reggae band in 1974 when Cedric Brooks' band The Light of Saba performed in the prison. [1] After the performance, however, Wong's poetry was declared "subversive" and his writing was confiscated from his cell. [ 1 ]
Young's early poetry, including hxr first dub poem entitled "once dere was a mxn" written in 1988, followed the foundational aesthetic of dub poetry's form, style, and content. [8] In 2013, Young was one of the headline names for the 2013 Human Rights Concert in Harare , Zimbabwe .
Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [1] [2] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [3] She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher.
After meeting Oku Onuora in Cuba in 1978, she began working in dub poetry. [2] She released her first recording, Dub Poet: The Poetry of Lillian Allen, in 1983. [citation needed] Allen won the Juno Award for Best Reggae/Calypso Album for Revolutionary Tea Party in 1986 and Conditions Critical in 1988. [3]
In the early 2000, Brain Damage experimented their first international collaborations in London with Dub specialists like The Disciples, Alpha and Omega, Zion Train or the MC Tena Stelin [2]. Their works based on Spoken word an Dub Poetry led them to include numerous voices in their tracks, like Black Sifichi and many others afterwards.
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The terms dub, dubs, or dubbing commonly refer to: Accolade (also known as dubbing), a central act in rite of passage ceremonies conferring knighthood Dub music , a subgenre of reggae music