The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music

This innovative investigation of the discourse of Pacific reggae in Aotearoa New Zealand produces a multi-faceted analysis of the dialogic relationships that construct meaning in this genre of popular music.

Elizabeth Turner is a pseudonym used by author Gail Oust.

1. Constructing an encounter between Mikhail Bakhtin and the New Zealand band Herbs 2. Message music and meaning 3. Mikhail Bakhtin: dialogism, discourse and ethics 4. The social, political and cultural context 5. Politics, protest, and resistance in Herbs' What's Be Happen? 6. Narratives of experience and identity 7. Taking sides: Herbs' album cover 8. Coda