In the context of Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system is an important part of Jamaican culture and history.
The Sound System: Contributions to Jamaican Music and the Montreal Dancehall scene. By John Constantinides (M.A). Faculty of Music, department of ..
Apr 15, 2013.. Melissa Bradshaw details how Jamaican music took hold in the UK.. It's a celebration of soundsystem culture and its ongoing influence on hip ..
Sound systems are the heartbeat at the centre of all meaningful Jamaican music. During the last forty years, sound system culture has spread all over the world ..
Sound systems are the heartbeat at the centre of all meaningful Jamaican music. During the last forty years, sound system culture has spread all over the world essentially unchanged. They appear in a pure Jamaican form for the Notting Hill Carnival with systems such as Aba Shanti-I and Good Times being huge crowd pullers. Don’t confuse sound systems with mobile discos – one can rock a real party, the other is useful for weddings. The only way to listen to reggae is at a sound system.
Top5Jamaica features the websites of soundsystems all over the world including Stone Love, Irish & Chin, Black Chiney, Mighty Crown and more.
Sound Systems began as a way of playing amplified music to outside gatherings in Jamaica. Initially this was just a small gramophone and speakers on a street ..
