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Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2
2 History and Development of Dub Poetry 3
2.1 The Development of Jamaican Creole – Short Overview 3
2.2 The Oral Tradition 4
2.3 From the B-side of a Record via “Toasting� to Dub Poetry 6
3 The Correlation of the Rastafarians, Reggae and Dub 9
3.1 The Rastafarians 9
3.2 The Peculiarity of Dub 10
3.3 Artists and Scenes 12
3.3.1 The Jamaican Scene 12
3.3.2 The British Scene 13
3.3.3 The Canadian Scene 14
4. Structural Characteristics of Dub Poetry 15
4.1 Patois – the Language 15
4.2 Rhythm 15
4.3 Performance 17
5 Linguistic Analysis of Dub Poetry Lyrics and Performance 18
5.1 Linton Kwesi Johnson 18
5.2 Wat about di Workin Claas? 19
5.3 Tings an Times – Performance Aspects in Comparison 21
6 Reflection 23
7 Bibliography and Discography 24
8 Appendix 25


1 Introduction
Dub poetry is often said to be a musical genre due to its close connection to reggae music, but a second glance reveals quite obviously dub......

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