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This book is primarily focused of the Dacehall and digital explosion of the 1980s, and it’s a wonderful book packed full of interviews and photographs. This definitive study of the 1980s Jamaican Dancehall scene features hundreds of exclusive photographs and an accompanying text that capture a vibrant, globally influential and yet rarely documented culture that [...]

This is a fascinating and often academic look at Dancehall music in Jamaica. Dancehall music is too often easily dismissed by the media as lacking depth, but this book serves as a study of dancehall music in all its forms and gives it the intelligient attention that it often deserves. Essential book. Publishers Weekly “Arguing [...]

This is the book that Dub deserves. It’s an academic approach to looking at the development of Dub music within the reggae genre and is a must have on any reggae fans bookshelf. Review “Veal deftly outlines the sociopolitical context in which dub arose, and explains how the cut-corner, make-do economics of the Jamaican record [...]

Quite simply, this is a crash course on reggae music, it’s history and development, and an insight into many of the famous musicians and prodiucers from past and present who have helped to shape Reggae music. An essential and fascinating book from the same author that wrote Bass Culture. From Prince Buster to Burning Spear, [...]

Another must have book for any Reggae library. David Katz has written a brilliant book about Lee Scratch Perry, but what makes this different is that it was written with the co-operation of Lee Perry and Katz gets previously unprecendented access to Lee Perry and his family, which throws up some fascinating interviews, stories, anecdotes, [...]