Dub poet

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Levi Tafari

• Dub poet

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Bob Marley

• Robert Nesta Marley (Jamaica, 1945 USA, 1981)
  Reggae musician and member of Rastafarian
  movement.
• Africa Unite (Survival 1979) reflects Marley's
  support for the struggles of Africans.
• Redemption Song (Uprising 1980)
• Emancipate yourselves from mental slaveryNone
  but ourselves can free our minds
• Get up, Stand up radical song, which would
  appeal to people in third world, black people.
• Exodus song about return to Zion

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Other famous Bob Marley songs

• I Shot the Sheriff
• No woman, No Cry
• Could you be loved
• Stir It Up
• Jammin
• One Love
• Three Little Birds
• Buffalo Soldier
• Iron Lion Zion

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The Rastafarian movement

• Haile Selassi (1892-1975) last emperor of
  Ethiopia Jah, their incarnation of God
• They reject western society, called Babylon
  ("confusion").
• Zion promised land (Africa)
• Dreadlocks related to lions, the animal on the
  flag
• Can you write down some other beliefs from the
  video?

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Some Rastafarian Festivals

• February 6 - Bob Marleys birthday.
• May 11 - The day that Bob Marley died.
• July 23 - The birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie
• August 17 - The birthday of Marcus Garvey
• September 11 - Ethiopian New Year

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What is dub poetry?

• Oral poetry for public performance, in the
  Jamaican (and black British) dialect
• Started in Jamaica and England - early 1970s
• Jamaican disc-jockeys (toasters) sang or
  recited their own words over the dub versions of
  reggae records (instrumental re-mixed versions on
  the B-sides)
• Dub poetry includes celebration of music, protest
  against racism, and Rastafarian religious themes.
  
• Some famous dub poets Linton Kwesi Johnson ,
  Benjamin Zephaniah, Michael Smith, Jean Binta
  Breeze

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Who is Levi Tafari?

• Lets visit his website
• Eight hundred lives project
• An interview with Levi

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Visit to a school

• youtube clip

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His name Creator of Unity

• Im a creator of unity
• My identity is a mysterybecause my story
• is not historyMy geneology is of an African
  ancestry
• which has left a legacy
• for the whole of humanity
• I am crucial, rhythmic, poetic consciousness
  raiserAn Urban Griot overflowing with
  cultureBorn in Liverpool to parents from
  JamaicaYes I'm Levi Tafari a unity creator

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Benjamin Zephaniah

• Poems

• Touch
• Genetics
• The British youtube
• The British text
• The Brazilians students poems based on The
  British

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Task compare The British and Celebr8
The British Celebrate
Types of people mentioned
Structure of poem
Tone of poem
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Comparison The British and Celebr8
The British Celebrate
Types of people mentioned Historic peoples who invaded Britain (Picts, Celts, Silures, Romans, Norman French,Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings)   Recent immigrants (Jamaicans, and from other Caribbean islanders, Africans, Chinese etc) Black white / different races Different religious groups Men / women Older people (the elderly) Disabled people Refugees
Structure of poem A recipe, a list of different people who came to Britain Doesnt rhyme (free verse) Like song lyrics, with a chorus Rhymes
Tone of poem Humourous but with serious point at the end (An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all.)   Serious
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Write your own poem!

• Write a poem called either The Spanish or The
  Catalans in the style of a recipe.
• Historic inhabitants / invaders
• Recent immigrants
• Traditions / characteristics of the Spanish or
  Catalans

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Recipe vocabulary

• add
• bake
• blend (mix smoothly)
• blend in
• boil
• combine
• cook
• leave to cool
• let cool / heat up
• melt (derritir)
• mix
• pour
• remove

• serve
• set
• sieve / strain (to remove ) - colar
• simmer cook slowly (xuf xuf!)
• spread
• sprinkle
• steam cocinar al vapor
• stir (remenar)
• take (a blend of
• whisk what you do with a mini-pimer

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Further Information Roots

• West Indian immigration to Britain in the 1950s