Reggae Explosion The Story of Jamaican Music

by Salewicz, Chris; Boot, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780810981690
• ISBN10: 0810981696
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-09
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The team of writer Chris Salewicz and photographer Adrian Boot have brought together 50,000 words of text and over 400 images from the ReggaeXplosion Archive to create a history that contains a potent cocktail of drama, turbulence, pride and protest. From the earliest emergence in the 1950s of the fiercely competitive sound systems, fighting sonic battles in downtown Kingston, the story of Jamaican music is traced through ska, the birth of reggae, dub, roots reggae and the impact of Bob Marley to the new, harder-edged developments that have emerged in the last twenty years, including dancehall, ragga and jungle. Unpublished transcripts of interviews with key figures like Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Prince Buster introduce the authentic voices of reggae history to the book - which blends researched facts, graphics and rare images to create not only a sense of the pulse of the music, but also the contrasts of poverty, humour, desperation and joie de vivre that typify both the island of Jamaica and its music.

Table of Contents

Mento to Ska	p. 12
The Birth of Reggae	p. 44
Deejays and Dubmasters	p. 74
Roots Rock Reggae	p. 104
The Marley Legacy	p. 138
Dancehall	p. 170
Reggae Outer-National	p. 200
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