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Jamaican music heritage programming
Well supported
The turn towards treating Jamaican music as heritage — Reggae Month, the UNESCO inscription, museum exhibitions, school curricula and state-backed festivals. It brings funding and standing, and it brings the usual risk: heritage tends to prefer the settled and respectable part of a tradition, and much of what made this music matter was neither.
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Reggae Month is more than concerts
Reggae Month should be tracked as a cultural policy, education and industry calendar, not merely a list of stage shows.
Stance: festival publicity vs heritage infrastructure
debate
Heritage or tourism brand? Who owns 'official' reggae
A neutral framing: state heritage-branding, Reggae Month and related programming are credited with raising reggae's global profile and tourism value; critics fear the official frame favours a sanitised, marketable reggae over dancehall and living street practice, and ask who gets to define the 'official' music. Sources: Jamaica Gleaner; Jamaica Observer; UNESCO.
Stance: profile-raising heritage branding vs a sanitised, marketable official reggae