Posts Tagged ‘jamaican music’

The cancer in Jamaican music

Sherman
Jamaican music has caught up to the politics of country to be a broken wasteland of noise that is filled with incompetent, narcissistic people who have no allegiance or care to anything but themselves. The thing is that everyone wants to act like this just happened when it didn’t. This cancer of noise has been [...]

How Jamaica changed the voice of teenage Britain

It is one of the mysteries of modern life.
How on earth did a peculiar kind of mockney patois become the default spoken English of a generation of British kids – white, black, Asian; rural, urban; posh, poor (and Ali G)? A new CD offers one solution. An England Story, a musical anthology that charts the [...]

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