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The box as identity

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The way a sound system's speaker boxes, hand-built, hand-painted and lettered with the sound's name, carry its identity, so that ownership and the pride of having built the rig are bound up with the boxes themselves.

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Museum of Youth Culture sound-system features; ProSoundWeb Jamaican sound-system features; sound-system culture literature.

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Story · Well supportedThe box-men: unsung builders of the weight

The carpenters and engineers who built the sound get little of the credit the record labels keep.

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