Sources

Amongst the seemingly countless books I have consulted, the following have proved especially invaluable:

Leonard Barrett. The Rastafarians (Beacon Press, 1997)

Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton. Reggae – The Rough Guide (Rough Guides Ltd, 1997)

Duane Blake. The Shower Posse: The Most Notorious Jamaican Crime Organization (Moyer Bell, 2004)

Cedella Booker, with Anthony Winkler. Bob Marley: An Intimate Portrait by His Mother (Penguin Books, 1996)

Adrian Boot and Michael Thomas. Babylon on a Thin Wire (Schocken, 1976)

Adrian Boot and Vivien Goldman. Bob Marley: Soul Rebel, Natural Mystic (St. Martin’s Press, 1982)

Hank Bordowitz (Editor). Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader (Da Capo Press, 2004)

David Burnett. Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley (Insight Editions, 2009)

Sebastian Clarke. Jah Music (Heinemann, 1980)

E. David Cronon. Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (University of Wisconsin Press, 1955)

Stephen Davis. Bob Marley (Schenkman Books, Inc., 1984)

Stephen Davis and Peter Simon. Reggae Bloodlines – In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica (Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1977)

Stephen Davis and Peter Simon. Reggae International (Rogner & Bernhard GmbH & Co., 1982)

Christopher John Farley. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley (Amistad, 2006)

Vivien Goldman. The Book of Exodus: The Making & Meaning of Bob Marley’s Album of the Century (Three Rivers Press, 2006)

Colin Grant. Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa (Jonathan Cape, 2008)

Laurie Gunst. Born Fi’ Dead (Canongate, 2003)

Insight Guide to Jamaica (Insight Guides, 2000)

Amy Jacques-Garvey (Editor). Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. (Atheneum, 1968)

Lee Jaffe, with Roger Steffens. One Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003)

Walter Jeckyl. Jamaican Song and Story (Dover Publications, Inc., 1966)

David Katz. People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (Payback Press, 2000)

David Katz. Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae (Bloomsbury, 2003)

Colin Larkin (Editor). The Guinness Who’s Who of Reggae (Guinness World Records Ltd, 1994)

Helene Lee, with Stephen Davis. The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism (Lawrence Hill Books, 2003)

Rita Marley. No Woman, No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley (Sidgwick and Jackson, 2004)

John Reader. Africa: A Biography (Vintage, 1999)

Roger Steffens. Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography (Rounder Books, 2005)

Roger Steffens. The Reggae Scrapbook (Insight Editions, 2007)

Norman C. Stolzoff. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2000)

Bruce Talamon and Roger Steffens. Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003)

Don Taylor. Marley and Me: The Real Bob Marley Story (Barricade Books, 1995)

Michael Thelwell. The Harder They Come (Grove, 1980)

Timothy White. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983)

Malika Whitney and Dermott Hussey. Bob Marley: Reggae King of the World (Dutton, 1984)

Richard Williams (Editor). Exodus: Bob Marley & the Wailers, Exile 1977 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007)

Further invaluable sources were The Beat magazine and www.Bob MarleyMagazine.com. Serious respect and thanks to both.