Mutabaruka

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 39-44

  Morris, Mervyn ^a  

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EID: 61049270139     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1996.tb02262.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. See Christian Habekost, Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi BV, 1993), especially pp. 15-49.
2. Cf. Mutabaruka: The First Poems (Kingston: Paul Issa, 1980), p. 64
3. and The Mystery Unfolds (Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ: Shenachie Records, 1986).
4. The 'Crucial Concert' (1989) version is due to appear in Mutabaruka's forthcoming collection.
5. Mutabaruka talks to Shivaun Hearne', Jamaica Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, March 1992, p. 49.
6. Mikey Smith, for example: 'and then I build under that, build up under that. Build under that and catch me breaks and the bridges. Just like how a musician a work out.' See Hinterland, ed. E. A. Markham (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1989), p. 280
7. extract from an interview first published in Jamaica Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, May-July 1985.
8. These include Outcry (Kingston: Swing, 1973)
9. Sun and Moon (Kingston: [Swing?], 1976, with Faybiene)
10. and Mutabaruka: The First Poems, 1970-1979 (Kingston: Paul Issa, 1980).
11. Mutabaruka: The First Poems, p. 59.
12. Typescript, p. 48.
13. Melanin Man, 1994: Shanachie 45013.
14. Mutabaruka is a name from Rwanda. It mean one who is always victorious. Mi took it from a poet from Rwanda.' ('Mutabaruka talks to Shivaun Hearne', p. 48.)
15. Organic food. See Velma Pollard, Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari (Kingston: Canoe Press, 1994), p. 37: 'ital, I-tal, itol - vital; pure[;] natural; organic; food cooked without salt; Rasta food.'
16. Mutabaruka, interviewed by Mervyn Morris, 24 March 1994, at 'Food for Life', Dumfries Road, Kingston.
17. In Rastafarian usage an earnest, often free-wheeling, expression of experience and opinions.
18. Interview, 24 March 1994.
19. I am indebted to the JBC for a videotape of Muta's presentation.