Roots and Routes of Reggae from Jamaica to Italy Reggae’s capacity for recontextualization and transculturation in Italy from the late 1970s/early 1980s must be understood in relation to.

Jamaica has always had a music industry way out of proportion with its size and small population. Kingston’s recording industry is probably the third largest in the world.

For most consumers of world music, the words "Jamaican music" evoke the spare acoustic sound of roots reggae, the musical form that evolved from ska and rocksteady in the late 1960s to become, …

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This paper fills the lacuna by exploring the relationship between the body, spiritual engagement and sound within the ostensibly nonreligious context of the roots reggae soundsystem.

This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae with an ethnographic account from the Nordic context, asking how Finnish reggae artists with …

Cultural Roots founding member Wade Dyce, now living in Salem, Massachusetts, takes his time to ponder when I ask him about the unusual path that led to the life and death of reggae’s most elusive …