Dub Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae

Name: Dub Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
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ISBN: 9780819565723

ISBN-10: 0819565725

ISBN-13: 9780819565723

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Veal, Michael E. Veal

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When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during reggae's "golden age" of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Dub involves remixing existing recordings--electronically improvising sound effects and altering vocal tracks--to create its unique sound. Just as hip-hop turned phonograph turntables into musical instruments, dub turned the mixing and sound processing technologies of the recording studio into instruments of composition and real-time…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.04" wide x 8.99" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

MICHAEL VEAL is associate professor of ethnomusicology at Yale University, where he specializes in ethnomusicology and African-American music. He is the author of Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon (2000).



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Electronic Music in Jamaica: Dub in the Continuum of Jamaican Music



"Every Spoil Is a Style": The Evolution of Dub Music in the 1970s



The "Backbone" of Studio One



"Jus' Like a Volcano in Yuh Head!"



Tracking the "Living African Heartbeat"



"Java" to "Africa"



"City Too Hot:" The End of the Roots Era and the Significance of Dub to the Digital Era of Jamaican Music



Starship Africa: The Acoustics of Diaspora and of the Postcolony


Coda: Electronica, Remix Culture, and Jamaica as a Source of Transformative Strategies in Global Popular Music



Recommended Listening


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Songs and Recordings


Index of General Subjects