Showing posts with label JAMAICA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JAMAICA. Show all posts
Friday, November 11, 2022

Chant Down Babylon: The Disappearing and Reappearing Voice of Jamaican Roots Reggae

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  ROOTS 'N FUTURE published as 'Chant Down Babylon', The Wire, 2000 by Simon Reynolds Where better to open a meditation on the w...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Ragga Dancehall / Elephant Man / Capleton

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  Various Artists The Biggest Ragga Dancehall Anthems 2000 Greensleeves Elephant Man Comin' 4 You! Greensleeves Uncut , 2001 by Simon Re...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica

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Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff (Duke University Press) Village Voice Literary Sup...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Ragga Round-Up column - Melody Maker 1994

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 For the intrigued outsider, ragga provokes the same split response as gangsta rap. You can dig mightily the booty-coercing phuturism of the...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

John Lydon's Jamaica jaunt 1978 / Dennis Morris interview

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Film by Don Letts of Johnny Rotten in Jamaica (look out for a glimpse of the lovely Vivien Goldman)    JOHNNY ROTTEN IN JAMAICA, 1978 - INTE...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

the richness and range of reggae

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Big Youth Natty Universal Dread Various Artists A Jamaican Story Uncut, May 2001 by Simon Reynolds In Jamaica, the DJ isn't the guy who ...
Friday, February 12, 2021

dancehall scholarship

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Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff (Duke University Press) director's cut, Villag...
Monday, June 17, 2013

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JOHNNY ROTTEN IN JAMAICA, 1978 - INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS MORRIS Another Man magazine, 2012 by Simon Reynolds “I was at the forefron...