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Counteraction song
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A counteraction song directly answers, revises or comments on an earlier record - a practice running through mento, ska, reggae and dancehall where a "response" record becomes part of an ongoing public musical conversation rather than a standalone piece.
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Should the music cool the rudies or speak for them?
One side
Music should counsel calm and respectability
The other
Music should speak for and to rude boys
Two documented stances taken within the studios themselves during the rude-boy era: that popular music should counsel calm and respectability, as in records urging youth to settle down, versus that it should speak for and to rude boys as members of the same community. Neutral framing; no verdict.
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