Marley’s beautifully constructed lyrics inspired and moved people to not sit quietly and do nothing while their world is being destroyed by the evils of violence and racism. Bob Marley without a doubt helped lessen the problems that plague this world but racism and violence amongst fellow human beings is certainly still occurring. So one cannot help but speculate, if a single artist can have such a positive influence on so many people through his music then why are our current chart-topping music artists not following in his footsteps and doing the same? Bob Marley is undeniably an icon of social change within not only America, but also around the world where his music has been heard. Author Anthony Bogues in his article “Get Up, Stand Up: The Redemptive Poetics of Bob Marley” even goes as far as to compare Marley to Martin Luther King Jr. seeing the evidence that they both stood strongly for social change in a time when we most surely needed it. Bogues writes, “common to both King and Marley was the universalism, a commitment to social change, and the fact that both were prophetic voices whose visions of a new world
Marley’s beautifully constructed lyrics inspired and moved people to not sit quietly and do nothing while their world is being destroyed by the evils of violence and racism. Bob Marley without a doubt helped lessen the problems that plague this world but racism and violence amongst fellow human beings is certainly still occurring. So one cannot help but speculate, if a single artist can have such a positive influence on so many people through his music then why are our current chart-topping music artists not following in his footsteps and doing the same? Bob Marley is undeniably an icon of social change within not only America, but also around the world where his music has been heard. Author Anthony Bogues in his article “Get Up, Stand Up: The Redemptive Poetics of Bob Marley” even goes as far as to compare Marley to Martin Luther King Jr. seeing the evidence that they both stood strongly for social change in a time when we most surely needed it. Bogues writes, “common to both King and Marley was the universalism, a commitment to social change, and the fact that both were prophetic voices whose visions of a new world