DUB REVOLUTION. JAMAICA'S SOMIC INNOVATORS AND THE BIRTH OF REMIX CULTURE

The most abstract, playful and confounding of reggae subgenres, dub is a vital component of sound system culture that has wielded di sproportionate influence. Emerging as an underground phenomenon in Kingston during the early 1970s, dub was wrought by sonic alchemists such as King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Prince Jammy and Scientist, conjuring musical mutations at the mixing desk. Dub reached other lands through the Jamaican diaspora and as Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes furthered the form in New York, Dennis Bovell, Mad Professor and Ad...[Leer más]