Sound system Jamaican

Coxson Dodd

"In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeysengineers and MCs playing skarocksteady or reggae music. The sound system is an important part of Jamaican culture and history. The sound system concept first became popular in the 1940s, in the parish of KingstonDJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. Tom the Great Sebastian, founded by Chinese-Jamaican businessman Tom Wong, was the first commercially successful sound system and influenced many sound systems that came later. In the beginning, the DJs played American rhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavour. ... By the mid-1950s, sound systems were more popular at parties than live musicians, and by the second half of the decade, custom-built systems began to appear from the workshops of specialists such as Hedley Jones, who constructed wardrobe-sized speaker cabinets known as 'House[s] of Joy'. ..."

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