Publication date: 04.10.2024
£19.99
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The growth of the Jamaican recording industry?
Records have played an integral part in the history of Jamaican music and the importance of making records, as opposed to making music, can never be overstated. These are the stories, told through first hand accounts wherever possible, of the men and women? manufacturers, musicians, singers, deejays, arrangers and record producers? who made the records and who made the sound of reggae available worldwide.
Records have played an integral part in the history of Jamaican music and the importance of making records, as opposed to making music, can never be overstated. These are the stories, told through first hand accounts wherever possible, of the men and women? manufacturers, musicians, singers, deejays, arrangers and record producers? who made the records and who made the sound of reggae available worldwide.
?This volume of what promises to become a crucial series covers in comprehensive fashion Jamaican music?s pivotal phase, when the music absorbed its US influences from soul and moved on from rock steady and progressed to the uniquely Jamaican sound of reggae and rockers. It was a period in which old and new rhythms became the cornerstone of the music and thus the truefoundation of reggae. This second volume in the trilogy, amply illustrated, contains a wealth of interview testimony from the creators of the music and is both utterly authentic and essential reading.?
Steve Barrow Co-author of ?Reggae The Rough Guide?
