In 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...
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system or sound reinforcement system, typically for a dance event or party. The sound system concept originated in the 1950s in Kingston, Jamaica. DJs would...
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system for personal use Amplifier Sound system (DJ), a group of disc jockeys performing together Sound system (Jamaican), a group of disc jockeys, engineers...
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Duke Vin (category Jamaican sound systems)
was a Jamaican-born sound system operator and selector who operated the first sound system in the United Kingdom. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Forbes...
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Tony Matterhorn (category Jamaican sound systems)
and sound system selector from Kingston, Jamaica. Matterhorn got his start in the sound system arena in the early 1990s, on Inner City Sound System first...
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began talking stylistically over the rhythms of popular songs at sound systems. In Jamaican music, the Deejay is the one who talks (known elsewhere as the...
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pre-written. Toasting developed in Jamaica, before it took up that name and being part of the sound system era, a similar sound of it is found in mento and now...
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Socialist Roots Hi-Fi was a prominent Jamaican reggae sound system and record label owned by Tony Welch (aka Papa Roots) in the 1970s and early 1980s....
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Jamaica (/dʒəˈmeɪkə/ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square...
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Stone Love Movement (category Jamaican sound systems)
is one of the major Jamaican sound systems. Based in Kingston, Jamaica, Winston "Wee Pow" Powell built the Stone Love sound system in 1972, using locally-built...
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