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Article: Forging Identity And Community Through Aestheticism and Entertainment: The Sound System and The Rise Of The DJ1
- Article from:
- Caribbean Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright University of the West Indies Dec 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There would be times when the records playing would, in my estimation, sound weak, so I'd put in some peps: chick-a-took, chick-a-took, chick-a-took. That created a sensation! So there were times when people went to the record shop and bought those records, took them home, and then b[r]ought them back, and say: ? want to hear the sound I hear at the dancehall last night!' They didn't realize that was Machuki's injection in the dancehall!2 Count Machuki
By the beginning of the 1950s, Uve band music's dominance,3 was lost to recorded units of electronically played music in the provision of music to dance goers in Jamaica. Electronically played recorded units of music emerged to dominate the ...