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Jamaica’s past and present laid bare in Marlon James’s superb crime thriller Get Millie Black
At first glance, it might seem odd for a writer as ambitious and celebrated as Marlon James (who won the Man Booker Prize in 2015 for his novel A Brief History ... her native Jamaica by her ...
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The Real Origins of Hip-Hop: Dispelling the Myths of the Genre’s Birth
While Jamaican toasting is a respected art form ... Communities have a long history of storytelling, the dozens (a form of verbal sparring), and spoken word poetry, all of which laid the ...