On one Saturday a year at the start of summertime, West Philly Porchfest transforms the neighborhood into a sprawling, ...

Titled Art of Dancehall: Flyer and Poster Designs of Jamaican Dancehall Culture ... Gemini was the biggest sound system from Jamaica. This must have been massive to have them fly over somewhere else ...

Together, we created the tsunami warning system. We map the ocean depths ... The larger islands – Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica and Puerto Rico – as well as the communities in the Gulf of Mexico and coastal ...

Two factors dominated the competition between rival sound-system operators: volume and exclusivity. An early sign of the sonic wizardry that would later distinguish Jamaican record production was ...

A sound system is a community ... When sound systems first emerged in Jamaica in the 50s and 60s, tweeters were put in trees to voice (in a more effective manner than a newspaper/ poster) that a local ...

He argues that in practice, slipping a reggae track into a playlist of ... genres that more accurately represent an artist’s sound, a system as granular as Unchartify can combat algorithmic ...

In the 1970s and ‘80s, music from competing sound system operators used to play on the street in Toronto’s Little Jamaica. And almost every business in the area served the neighbourhood’s ...

We try to bring that to this humble mission we're on to bring sound-system culture to Seattle. "I listen to a wide expanse of music. I'm a huge Philly soul guy, and that's why I love UK reggae ...

Kingston’s earliest sound system operators—renowned originators like Tom the Great Sabastian and Sir Nick the Champ—mixed American R&B, soul, and jazz with emerging popular Jamaican music ...

There were no stalls, no costumes. I thought, “this cyah work”. Going out to blues nights, Palmer came into contact with the flourishing Jamaican sound system scene. “I said let’s bring in the ...

Jelani ‘JB Wassifa’ Brown is continuing a sound system legacy that began more than half a century ago (Picture: Adam Dawson/Cap7ure/Getty/PA) Reggae is ‘a thing of the soul’ says Jelani ...