Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The Rough Guide to World Music: Jamaica
Jamaica is a serious contender for the title ‘loudest island in the world’. On any night, and especially at weekends, it shakes to the musical vibrations of thousands of sound systems
Duke Reid crowned “King of Sounds and Blues”, Success Club, Kingston, late 1950s
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