ABSTRACT
When reggae music legend Bob Marley (1945-81) sang “Get Up, Stand Up,” it was a call to arms. Reggae had become the anthem of resistance in Jamaica, a former British colony where color, class, and capitalism churned in an urban crucible of poverty and underdevelopment. The song’s lyrics rang true for many people far from the Caribbean:
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights, Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
