Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement

@inproceedings{Savishinsky1994TransnationalPC,
  title={Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement},
  author={Neil J. Savishinsky},
  year={1994}
}
Discusses the spread of the Rastafarian movement in the British Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and the Pacific. In the vast majority of cases it has been reggae music which has functioned as the primary catalyst for spreading the religion and culture of Rastafari beyond Jamaica. 
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