The #repost caption below from the @bunnywailerarchives is written with love. Of culture. Of men now passed from this realm. Of men who loved their culture & expressed it via music. Who, as a result, taught us.
To see artists viewed as elders express their adulation & gratitude to and for Denroy & what he achieved with #MorganHeritage is to bear witness to ranks observed within reggae; ranks within reggae's studious, spiritually steeped, branch.
That reggae, like Jazz before it, like dance music after it, has different musical annals speaks of the rampant creativity of those within the genre at large. That conscious reggae, 'rice & peas' reggae, reggae that engages the mind in travails about what will come of the souls rewarded for their belief of a higher power during this time on earth - their endurance of oppression on earth - is a reward Denoy oversaw. A reward he musically steered. We're better music fans for having him on this earth. We're better informed. Musically. Spiritually. Racially. Societally.
That the original caption mentioned the Battle of Adwa, when Ethiopians repelled the advances of armed Italian forces - a home nation resisting a European invader with expansionist imperial ideals, is apt. What hope that victory imparted! Akin to cherished & recited Bible verses fortelling the enslaved that they would be led out of bondage.
That Bunny & Denroy's deity on earth would, decades later, appeal to the League of Nations against - once again - Italian expansionism, the threat of colonial enslavement, is a chilling parallel of our current times.
Reggae, like Denroy, spoke of it all.
We. Mere students of the art. The craft of the political within the musical.
May he journey well. ❤️🎶🕊️
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Brother #denroymorgan ascended yesterday March 3rd, 2022 1 Year & 1 Day after #bunnywailer who ascended on March 2nd, 2021. Two kindred exponents of the Rastafari Livity meeting often on the advocacy of human community rights. Traveling together in the Irits of The Battle Of Adwa!
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