{"product_id":"bass-culture","title":"Bass Culture","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003ch3\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAmazon.com\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eLinton Kwesi Johnson's aptly titled sophomore Island release finds the poet typically terse in expression and taut in flow. With his poetic skills honed by experience, he wisely invites the listener to draw on his empathy and fill in his own antiromantic details in this sonic portrait of displaced black lives \"inna foreign.\" Less a scream of rage and more a stew of simmering resentment, poems like \"Inglan is a Bitch\" extract humor from what is, after all, \"noh funny.\" LKJ's savaging of \"Di Black Petty Booshwah\" is balanced by the love moment in \"Loraine,\" a delicately wistful anecdote of missed opportunity. In \"Reggae Sounds\" and the title track, Bovell and LKJ celebrate riddim culture's \"word plus sound equals power\" formula, elucidating the links between core-of-the-earth bass lines and a people's grinding struggle. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Elena Oumano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45922294431935,"sku":"f60481bb-3abb-4690-9be4-a390b4243710","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/f14bd5bddc4071408c536545b1650d14.jpg?v=1785181722","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/bass-culture","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}