{"id":19,"date":"2026-09-01T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:09:34","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"Watt Town: Holy Songs from Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Documentary \u2014 France \u2014 2015 \u2014 47 min \u2014 HD \u2014 Colour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the first time on screen, the story of Jamaican music is approached through Revival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Revival encompasses Afro-Christian traditions in Jamaica that neither slavery nor colonialism succeeded in erasing.<\/p>\n<p>Three times a year, members of Zion Revival churches from across Jamaica gather at Watt Town, in St Ann parish.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly regarded today with condescension or rejection, Revivalists have played a <strong>major part in the shaping of Jamaican identity, influencing Jamaican rhythms as well as Rastafari<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watt Town: Holy Songs from Jamaica<\/strong> takes us inside this pilgrimage and reveals a rarely seen face of Jamaican culture and spirituality.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 1.5rem 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/125029685\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary \u2014 France \u2014 2015 \u2014 47 min \u2014 HD \u2014 Colour For the first time on screen, the story of Jamaican music is approached through Revival. Revival encompasses Afro-Christian traditions in Jamaica that neither slavery nor colonialism succeeded in erasing. Three times a year, members of Zion Revival churches from across Jamaica gather at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watttownmovie.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}