The lineage of today’s chart-topping hip-hop and, earlier, the international reggae scene can be traced back to the sound system culture that blossomed in Jamaica during the 1950s, 60s and 70s and ...

In Jamaica during the 1950s, people began to gather in parks and on beaches, partying to music that was spun by entrepreneurial disc jockeys and piped through outdoor loudspeakers. This quirk of ...

Founded at the turn of the millennium, NYC's Subatomic Sound System has built a rep worldwide for genre bending dubwise productions, explosive shows, and breaking down barriers with positive conscious ...

In 1955, Duke Vin, a sharply dressed and entrepreneurial British Rail employee in west London, who had arrived from Kingston, Jamaica just a year earlier, built his first sound system. It was a ...

Between hiring a sound system and paying for the permits and a liquor license, Myers estimates the cost to host a dance — even before paying for performers — at about JMD$45,000 (US$360), or about two ...

Growing up and working with Jamaican musicians continually begged the question as to when I would finally set foot on the land that gave rise to Louise Bennett, Claude McKay and Big Youth. Having ...

Sergio Ortiz is a soft-spoken teacher in San Antonio College’s music business program. But as the reggae artist Sgt. Remo, he makes some serious noise with a wall of speakers that looks like ...

Sound System pioneer Daddy Vego arrived from Jamaica in 1956 and will be honoured as Notting Hill Carnival weekend begins SOUNDSYSTEM PIONEER: Barrington Von Adams – better known as “Daddy Vego” - ...