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Article: Nostalgia: Exploring the roots of reggae's Sound Systems.(News)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2008
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Byline: PETE CHAMBERS'S
THIS all-encompassing project traces the history of Jamaican Sound System culture back to the 1950s and includes a 45-minute documentary, an accompanying exhibition at the Herbert, and a website, www.championsound.org.
uk I asked project producer Fran Porter how and why they embarked on this project: "The film's director, Matt Smith, DJed for a few different Coventry Sound Systems in the early 90s, and he became fascinated by the sound scene, the people he met and the music of course.
"More than 10 years later, Frontline AV ...