Best of The Beat February 6, 2019

Best of The Beat on Afropop: Bob Marley--By the Book

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<p>For our yearly commemoration of Bob Marley’s birth date, Feb. 6, 1945, we have a fascinating feature that illustrates the worldwide recognition of the Jamaican superstar. For the 2009 annual Bob Marley collector’s edition of <em>The Beat</em>, guest writer Joe Jurgensen compiled a comprehensive list of books about Marley, titled “In the Book of Life: The Marley Bibliography.” This extensive list, clearly a labor of love, is broken down into categories:<br>Biographies (30)<br>Discographies (9)<br>Photography Books (11)<br>Illustration (10)<br>Songbooks (5)<br>and Category Unto Their Own Books (6)</p> <p>The numbers after each category indicate the number of titles included, a total of 106 books each with a capsule review or comment. As this was compiled in 2009, it’s very likely that the number of Marley-related books has grown exponentially in the last 10 years. Case in point: two more newly published books were reviewed by <em>The Beat</em>’s founding editor Roger Steffens in this same issue, and we have included these as well.</p>
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<p>One more recent title in particular bears mentioning: Roger’s highly recommended oral history of Marley,<em> </em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/So-Much-Things-Say-History/dp/039305845X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548706854&sr=8-1&keywords=So+Much+Things+to+Say" target="_blank"><em>So Much Things to Say</em></a>, was published in 2018 and undoubtedly deserves a category unto itself.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/So-Much-Things-Say-History/dp/039305845X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548706854&sr=8-1&keywords=So+Much+Things+to+Say"></a> <br><br></p>
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<p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Joe Jurgensen, the author of this feature, published <em>Bob Marley: The Complete Annotated Bibliography </em>in 2009 and it is available on Amazon. He also created <a href="http://marleyarkives.wordpress.com/bob-marley-books" target="_blank">a blog devoted to Marley and Wailers books</a>, that is current through 2012.</p> <p><strong>READ OR DOWNLOAD PDFS HERE:</strong> <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/client-uploads/pdf/Beat281BobByTheBook.pdf" target="_blank">Bob By the Book</a>, and <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/client-uploads/pdf/Beat281MarleyBookBeat.pdf" target="_blank">Marley Book Beat</a><br></p> <p><strong><a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/articles/the-beat-goes-on-intro">ABOUT “BEST OF THE BEAT ON AFROPOP”</a></strong></p>