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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 improvisation. In addition to chronicling dub's development and offering the first thorough analysis of the music itself, author Michael Veal examines dub's social significance in Jamaican culture. He further explores the "dub revolution" that has crossed musical and cultural boundaries for over thirty years, influencing a wide variety of musical genres around the globe.
"Veal has written the first comprehensive overview of (dub's) development up to and including the digital music that followed dub's analog innovations... Veal does an excellent job of explaining, analyzing, and describing sounds. He also connects dub's influence to hip-hop, dance, electronica, and other modern genres, demonstrating how many dub tricks are still being used today in various incarnations. Readers will especially appreciate Veal's excellent Appendix of Recommended Listening, which includes catalog numbers that will make these recordings easier to find... (T)his is certainly the best and only book on dub music; highly recommended for all academic and public music collections where reggae music is popular." --Library Journal
| List of Illustrations | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Electronic Music in Jamaica: Dub in the Continuum of Jamaican Music | p. 26 |
| "Every Spoil Is a Style": The Evolution of Dub Music in the 1970s | p. 45 |
| The "Backbone" of Studio One | p. 95 |
| "Jus' Like a Volcano in Yuh Head!" | p. 108 |
| Tracking the "Living African Heartbeat" | p. 140 |
| "Java" to "Africa" | p. 163 |
| "City Too Hot:" The End of the Roots Era and the Significance of Dub to the Digital Era of Jamaican Music | p. 185 |
| Starship Africa: The Acoustics of Diaspora and of the Postcolony | p. 196 |
| Coda: Electronica, Remix Culture, and Jamaica as a Source of Transformative Strategies in Global Popular Music | p. 220 |
| Recommended Listening | p. 261 |
| Notes | p. 271 |
| Bibliography | p. 301 |
| Index of Songs and Recordings | p. 317 |
| Index of General Subjects | p. 323 |
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ISBN: 9780819565723
ISBN-10: 0819565725
Series: Music Culture S.
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 408
Published: 1st April 2007
Publisher: University Press of New England
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.522
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