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Diaspora migration routes

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Jamaican music travelled the routes Jamaicans travelled: to Britain on the postwar labour migration, to Toronto and New York, to Panama for canal work generations earlier. Each destination grew its own scene with its own accent, and each sent something back. The map of the music is a map of the movement of people, not of exports.

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Sources
Klive Walker, Dubwise: Reasoning from the Reggae Underground; Lloyd Bradley, Bass Culture; Statistics Canada and UK census records on Caribbean migration.

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