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Pull-up / wheel-and-come-again

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The rewind: when a crowd's response demands it, the selector hauls the record back to the start and plays it again — dancehall's most public form of criticism, delivered in seconds. "Pull up" and "wheel" are the calls; a tune pulled up twice is a verdict no chart can overrule. The practice travelled intact into jungle, garage and grime as the reload.

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sound-system histories; dancehall scholarship.

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Dance, body & movementSociety, politics & receptionEvidence, memory & meta layers

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Story · Well supportedVersions, rewinds and dance argument

The rewind is a review. In the dance, a crowd decides in eight bars whether a record lives, and the argument about what it should be saying has run for forty years.

Story · ProbableWheel and come again: the pull-up, and what happens when it can be bought

The rewind is the most democratic verdict in Jamaican music — a whole room overturning a record in three seconds. Then somebody worked out you could pay for it.

Story · ProbableControlled chaos: the gun salute, and what replaced it

Live rounds fired into the air were once the highest compliment a Jamaican dance could pay a record. Nobody ran. Then the ordinary man took the sound and left the gun at home.

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