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	JOHNSON Linton Kwesi : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He also formed his LKJ Records, which released reggae poet Michael Smith's Mi Cyaan Believe It '81; he continued to be published in anthologies (which by the '90s took in The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, Voice Print and Hinterland) as well as his own Inglan Is A Bitch '80 and Tings An' Times.
		Island's anthology Linton Kwesi Johnson appeared '85 in its "Reggae Greats' series; he focused on writing and journalism late '80s, returned to recording with Tings An' Times '91 on FNAC in France and Stern's in England.
		Johnson and Bovell were working '96 on the soundtrack to the Channel 4 television adaptation of The Final Passage, Caryl Phillips' account of his parents' generation migrating from the Caribbean to Britain, directed by Sir Peter Hall.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/j/J117.HTM (420 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Johnson was ”thirsty for knowledge” although he was quickly disillusioned with the learning process because of the racism with which he was confronted.
		Linton Johnson’s poetry sprang directly from his life and experiences growing up as a fl youth in largely hostile environment, and his involvement with the struggle of the fl working class movement.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson has been made an Associate Fellow of Warwick University (1985),an Honorary Fellow of Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1987) and received an award at the XIII Premo Internazionale Ultimo Novecento from the city of Pisa for his contribution to poetry and popular music (1990).
	home5.c2i.net /cyberia/reggae/linton/linton.html (1507 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson takes his place - theage.com.au
		Three decades after Linton Kwesi Johnson first harnessed the anger and aspirations of inner-city fl Britons to roiling beats and urgent rhymes, the country's best-known performance poet may be mellowing.
		Johnson is credited with coining the term ``dub poetry'' for the fusion of verse and bass-heavy rhythms.
		Johnson maintains that the distinction between written and spoken verse is meaningless.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/19/1026898910975.html (617 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson biography : albums : icebergradio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in the Brixton section of London, Johnson invented dub poetry, a type of toasting descended from the DJ stylings of U-Roy and I-Roy.
		Johnson was also instrumental (with his friend Darcus Howe) in the publication of a socialist-oriented London-based newspaper, Race Today, that offered him and other like-minded Britons both fl and white an outlet to discuss the racial issues that, under Margaret Thatcher's reign, seemed to be tearing the country apart.
		Johnson is, if anything, a thoughtful radical, more analytical than simplistic, and that adds to the power of these seven songs.
	www.icebergradio.com /artist/2902/extreme.html (645 words)

	linton kwesi johnson
		one of the joys of writing is that you occasionally get to meet one of your heroes and for me linton kwesi johnson is up there in my top ten along with other inspired and cantankerous wordsmiths such as mark e smith and henry rollins.
		containing performances by linton of a number of his most popular writings at the zenith in front of any audience of 10,000.
		linton kwesi johnsons new cd and dvd "live in paris" is released on lkj records
	www.ammocity.com /artman/publish/article_175.shtml (1239 words)

	Johnson to Appear at 2005 Burden Reading
		Linton Kwesi Johnson, founder of "dub" poetry and called the first reggae poet, will be the guest reader/artist at the 2005 Jean Burden Poetry Reading.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson was born on 24 August 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in the rural parish of Clarendon, Jamaica.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson has been made an Associate Fellow of Warwick University (1985), an Honorary Fellow of Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1987) and received an award at the XIII Premo Internazionale Ultimo Novecento from the city of Pisa for his contribution to poetry and popular music (1990).
	www.calstatela.edu /academic/english/njohnson.htm (828 words)

	Encyclopedia: Linton Kwesi Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, also Leader of the Opposition from 1975, and the only woman to date to hold the former...
		Jean Binta Breeze (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller.
		LKJ Live in Concert with the Dub Band - LKJ Records, 1985.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Linton-Kwesi-Johnson (886 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson
		Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, Jamaica.
		Johnson maintains that his starting point and focus is poetry, composed before the music, and for this reason he considers the term 'dub poetry' misleading when applied to his own work.
		Johnson writes the music as well as the words and his records, released mostly on his own label, LKJ records, are amongst the most effective examples of poetry combined with music.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth58 (663 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson - Author Profile
		Linton Johnson was born in Chapleton in Jamaica in 1952, and came to Britain in 1963.
		Johnson writes during a non-violent period and is yet able to capture the sentiments of angry youth population as they attack with shotguns, blades, stones and sticks.
		Johnson's scrupulous dedication to the historical realities of the Black British populations allows us to comment on the fact that there is a range of attitudes that these writers bear towards Black British issues.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E388M2/students/meraz/pjohnson.html (1560 words)

	Reggae Reviews, LKJ
		Linton Kwesi Johnson, AKA "LKJ", provided such a powerful performance to the crowd at The Fox Theater this past Tuesday that it will not soon be forgotten.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson is a poet using dub reggae as his medium to deliver his message.
		LKJ proceeded to educate the crowd who was Dr. Walter Rodney and what he stood for, whereas he was a controversial writer who spoke out against the establishment.
	www.reggaemovement.com /Reviews/lkj.htm (1128 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Profile - Linton Kwesi Johnson
		That was dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson's assessment of his adopted homeland in 1980.
		Linton Kwesi has been taking them since he arrived in Britain at the age of 11, and began to vocalise the struggle of the fl community.
		Johnson never set out to charm anyone, but to attend one of his performances has been described as a "passionate and inspiring experience".
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/profile/linton_kwesi_johnson.shtml (539 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Linton Kwesi Johnson: Live in Paris
		Linton Kwesi Johnson isn't an entirely anonymous figure in the reggae realm, but he certainly hasn't received the credit he's due.
		Johnson doesn't mince words on the chorus: "We gonna smash their brains in / Cause they ain't got nofink in 'em." "Fite Dem Back"'s anti-racism message makes clear that Johnson is a man of action, and while he may be confrontational, his message of equality for all is never misunderstood.
		Linton's DJ toasting (or dub poetry) is artful enough, but when complemented by the refined rhythms of the Bovell Band, the result is daunting; few reggae groups can match the energy that's heard on these 13 tracks.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1116236083364542 (656 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson's third time in dub - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson released his long-awaited album, LKJ in Dub:Volume 3 on Tuesday.
		Johnson and Bovell have been working together for the past two decades, and their enduring partnership and professionalism are expected to be much in evidence on this new project.
		Johnson was also conferred with an Honourary Fellowship by his alma mater, Goldsmith College.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20020704T190000-0500_28255_OBS_LINTON_KWESI_JOHNSON_S_THIRD_TIME_IN_DUB.asp (292 words)

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		Indeed, LKJ's voice is at once a critique of the imagined community of "Britishness" resplendent in the lamentable wave of authoritarian populism now known as Thatcherism^13^ (Thatcher herself is described by LKJ as the "wicked wan"^14^).
		LKJ, then, does not "give voice to the struggle" so much as explore how the voice is structured from within by struggle as a material context, both as social oppression and as linguistic violence.
		LKJ is, therefore, a vessel of history--he carries the voice rather than being coterminous with it.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.993/hitchcoc.993 (7003 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson: Live in Paris - PopMatters Music Review
		On 25 April 2003, the night before Linton Kwesi Johnson gave the concert captured on this anniversary disc, I was lucky enough to catch him perform at a small underground venue where health and safety regulations didn't seem to apply.
		The sounds of reggae infuse and enthuse LKJ's writing, the words echoing an imagined bass line, the one that he says is always at the back of his mind when composing.
		The music is intrinsic to LKJ's Nation Language and the prosody of his verse is driven by its innate sounds of reggae.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/j/johnsonlintonkwesi-liveinparis.shtml (1214 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson
		LKJ, Linton Kwesi Johnson, was interviewed this past fall prior to an appearance this past fall [1986] at the Fine Arts Center at SUNY Stony Brook.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson: Well, the term "Dub-poetry" is not a very accurate one, but basically what it means is oral poetry which uses the spoken language of people in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean too.
		LKJ: I've been a little bit taken aback by the fact that there seemed to be so much happening in America during the Sixties and early Seventies.
	wusb.fm /archive/articles/LKJohnson.html (2328 words)

	Check This Out! Linton Kwesi Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LKJ, as Johnson has come to be known via his music, has toured the world as a poet and reggae bandleader.
		LKJ: I think [that, in] those poems from my youth, those early poems, I was simply trying to articulate and to shape the anger and the hurt of my generation into some kind of a poetic discourse.
		LKJ: Well, I mean, the riots, the violence happened, but not because of my poems, but because of the bitterness that had been building up over a long period of time, because of what young fls were experiencing in terms of police brutality and other forms of racial injustice.
	www.ctomag.com /may16cto/lkj.html (4809 words)

	ReggaeTrain.com...your portal to Reggae music...(Biography [Linton Kwesi Johnson])
		Johnson's family emigrated to London in 1963, and he quickly developed a keen awareness of both literature and politics, culminating in a degree in sociology at Goldsmith's College, London, in 1973.
		Johnson became a media face, introducing radio histories of reggae and cropping up on television arts shows, but to his credit he did not exploit his position, preferring instead to remain politically active at grass-roots level in Brixton, London.
		Revered as the world's first reggae poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson was born on 24 August 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in the rural parish of Clarendon, Jamaica.
	www.reggaetrain.com /biolkj.asp (962 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Linton Kwesi Johnson
		Poet and social critic (as the name Poet and the Roots suggests) Linton Kwesi Johnson — born in Jamaica, raised in London —; helped bridge the gap between reggae and punk, infusing the music with powerful political content and an urge for freedom rooted in his experience as a fl man living in Brixton.
		Johnson is no less determined on his political numbers, but it's nice to know there are other things on his mind as well.
		LKJ in Dub is a tribute to Bovell's engineering talents; while it has little to do with the Linton Kwesi Johnson canon, it's an interesting and successful example of dub technique.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=linton_kwesi_johnson (414 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LKJ doesn't sing, and he doesn't rap, he is a poet from the city of London and he recites his poems over some of the hardest dub riddims ever laid down.
		lkj's voice, the music, and poetic observations of life around him and the community he shares transcends his immediate surroundings and reaches out...
		But no, LKJ is a dub poet, which means his leanings are distinctly political and most definitely on the serious tip.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/artistsearch_Linton%20Kwesi%20Johnson/mode_music (727 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson
		Linton Kwesi Johnson is probably the best-known, most popular dub poet (aside from Mutabaruka), which makes sense, since he practically invented this sub-genre.
		With Oku Onuora's works being the major exception, I have yet to hear much dub poetry that has really struck me. Johnson's works here seem typical of the genre: forceful, deliberate, conscious lyrics spouted in a semi-rhythmic talking/borderline DJ chatting beat poet style.
		On only a few tracks, however, does the music both appeal to me and manage not to be overpowered by the awkward-sounding vocals, most notably in "Di Great Insohreckshan," on which the vocals are more subdued, and "Making History," on which the vocals are more rhythmic, thus flowing better.
	www.reggae-reviews.com /lkj.html (284 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Linton Kwesi Johnson
		Once a leading general among the U.K.'s insurgent reggae scene of the '70s, LKJ disappeared for the latter half of the '80s and most of the '90s, only resurfacing two years ago as popular musical taste has come back around to dub reggae and his brand of poetry performed over beats you could dance to.
		DUB POETS LIKE LKJ also influenced a generation of American rap artists, both in putting rhythmic spoken word over beats and in covering fiercely political themes amid a song structure aimed squarely at dance club and pop audiences.
		LKJ, by contrast, certainly holds on to much of his youthful Old Testament fire, even if it's tempered by a world seemingly with little fuel for protest.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.20.99/lkj-9942.html (672 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs - 8 December 2002
		Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1950s rural Jamaica.
		She would entertain the young Linton, who she called "me husband", with folk songs, stories and ghost stories.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson became one of only two living poets to be published in a Penguin Modern Classic in 2002.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20021208.shtml (462 words)

	Valley Advocate: Linton Kwesi Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That the strident dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is still at it -- 25 years after releasing his fiery debut Dread Beat an' Blood -- is good enough.
		Johnson is as much a preacher, an educator and a historian as he is a reggae star.
		The backing band sounds over-eager and rushed (first-timers would do better to start with LKJ's earlier studio stuff), but Johnson's rich voice and hypnotic uninflected delivery are still the closest thing to an uprising you can skank to.
	www.valleyadvocate.com /gbase/Music/content?oid=oid:104610 (321 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Linton Kwesi - Johnson - Dub poet and political and social activist.
		Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in Chapleton a district of Kingston Jamaica.
		But Kwesi Johnson didn't stop there, his political, cultural and social awakening led to a degree in sociology at the University of London's Goldsmiths College in 1973.
	www.blackinbritain.co.uk /AZfiles/LintonKwesi.htm (362 words)

	Linton Kwesi Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Linton Kwesi Johnson is credited with launching the dub poetry genre when he burst onto the scene with his 1978 release Dread, Beat an' Blood.
		And his close collaboration with musician/producer Dennis Bovell and the Dub Band gave his recordings much of their consistency and fire.
		This double-CD set features crucial album tracks like "Di Black Petty Booshwah," "Wat About di Workin' Class," "Di Great Insohreckshan," and "Inglan Is a Bitch," as well as a number of obscure dub tracks and 12-inch remixes, all of which reaffirm Johnson's key role in the development of dub poetry.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/01/07/OTR/LINTON_KWESI_JOHNSON.html (158 words)

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