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Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ) (born 24 August 1952, in Chapelton, Jamaica) is a British-based Dub poet. He became only the second living poet to be published in the Penguin Classics series. [1] His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Creole over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell. August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ...
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Chapelton is a town in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. ...
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The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, a making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
Jamaican Creole, also known locally as Patois/(Patwa) or simply Jamaican, is an English/African-based language --not to be confused with Jamaican English nor with the Rastafarian use of English-- used primarily on the island of Jamaica. ...
Dub is a form of Jamaican music, which developed in the early 1970s. ...
Dennis Bovell (1953, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies) is a legendary reggae guitarist and music producer. ...
Johnson attended Goldsmiths College in New Cross, London, which currently holds his personal papers in its archives; in 2004 he became an Honorary Visiting Professor of Middlesex University in London. In 2005 Linton Kwesi Johnson was awarded a silver Musgrave medal from the Institute of Jamaica for distinguished eminence in the field of poetry. Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ...
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While still at school he joined the Black Panthers, helped to organize a poetry workshop within the movement and developed his work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers.
Poetry
Most of Johnson's poetry is political, dealing mainly with the experiences of being an African-Caribbean in Britain. However, he has also shown himself more than capable of writing about other issues, such as British foreign policy or the death of anti-racist marcher Blair Peach. His most celebrated poems were written during the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The poems contain graphic accounts of the alleged regular racist police brutality occurring at the time. When written, Johnson's poetry makes clever use of the unstandardised transcription of Jamaican Creole. The Leicester Caribbean Carnival The British African-Caribbean (Afro-Caribbean) community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background, and whose ancestors were indigenous to Africa. ...
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 - April 23, 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher of special needs children at a school in London. ...
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...
Johnson's poems first appeared in the journal Race Today. In 1974 Race Today published his first collection of poetry, Voices of the Living and the Dead. Dread Beat An' Blood, his second collection, was published in 1975 by Bogle-L'Ouverture.
A collection of his poems has been published as Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Penguin Modern Classics. Johnson is one of only three poets to be published by Penguin Modern Classics while still alive.
Music Johnson's best known albums include his debut Dread Beat An' Blood, Forces of Victory, Bass Culture and Making History. Across these albums are spread classics of the dub poetry school of performance - and, indeed, of reggae itself - such as Dread Beat An' Blood, Sonny's Lettah, Inglan Is A Bitch and Independent Intavenshan. Johnson was a prescient man and his track All Wi Doin Is Defendin accurately predicts the Brixton riot (1981). The Brixton riot of April 11, 1981 was the most serious riot in London of the century. ...
Johnson's record label LKJ Records is home to other reggae artists, some of whom made up The Dub Band, with whom Johnson mostly recorded, and other Dub Poets, such as Jean Binta Breeze. Jean Binta Breeze (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller. ...
Of late, Johnson has only performed live on an intermittent basis, perhaps a result of modern reggae's shift towards more spontaneous and rapid-fire performers of raggamuffin or dancehall. Raggamuffin (or ragga) is a kind of reggae that includes digitized backing instrumentation. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ragga. ...
Discography - LKJ in Dub: Volume 3 - LKJ Records, 2002.
- Independent Intavenshan - Island, 1998.
- More Time - LKJ Records, 1998.
- LKJ A Cappella Live - LKJ Records, 1996.
- LKJ Presents - LKJ Records, 1996.
- LKJ in Dub: Volume 2 - LKJ Records, 1992.
- Tings An' Times - LKJ Records, 1991.
- LKJ Live in Concert with the Dub Band - LKJ Records, 1985.
- Making History - Island, 1983.
- LKJ in Dub - Island, 1981.
- Bass Culture - Island, 1980.
- Forces of Victory - Island, 1979.
- Dread Beat An' Blood - Island, 1978.
Making History is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1983 on the Island Records label. ...
LKJ in Dub is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1980 on the Island Records label. ...
Bass Culture is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released on 9 May 1980 on the Island Records label. ...
Forces of Victory is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1979 on the Island Records label. ...
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