Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
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"In a genre marked by album compillations of B-side dub mixes, Blackboard was notable as the first self-containted dub album."--Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (2007) by Michael Veal "Bunny Lee’s significance extends over four decades and several stylistic periods of Jamaican music, but he is probably best remembered for his string of “flying cymbal” productions in the mid-1970s. As mentioned earlier, the flying cymbal was a drum set pattern widely attributed to Carlton "Santa" Davis, who imported the offbeat hi-hat cymbal “splash” of disco music and fused it with the one drop drumming pattern."--Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (2007) by Michael Veal |
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Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (2007) is a book on dub music by Michael Veal.
Blurb:
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.
