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Ring the Alarm: A History of Sound System Culture

Afropop Worldwide by Afropop Worldwide

Jul 31, 202600:59:04Health

n Jamaica, sound systems are more than just a stack of speakers blasting the latest tunes to an eager crowd. Over the last 70 years, they have come to represent the most common way that Jamaicans experience music. Sound...

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Ring the Alarm: A History of Sound System Culture is an episode from Afropop Worldwide by Afropop Worldwide. n Jamaica, sound systems are more than just a stack of speakers blasting the latest tunes to an eager crowd. Over the last 70 years...

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