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Vinyl revival in Jamaica
Well supported
The renewed press-and-collect economy around Jamaican records: reissue labels and specialist shops feeding a worldwide collectors' market, fresh seven-inch pressings for the revival audience, and Tuff Gong's Kingston plant still cutting at home. Smaller and stranger than the original singles economy, but genuinely alive.
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- Well supported
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- reissue-label documentation; trade coverage.
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The crate-digger economy: raising reggae's profile or pricing out local access?
One side
Global collectors and reissues raising reggae's profile
The other
Pricing the music beyond local reach
A documented debate about foreign collectors, dealers and reissue demand, stated neutrally: one view is that global crate-digging and vinyl revival have raised reggae's profile and preserved rare pressings; another is that speculative collecting and export inflate prices and move the music out of reach of the communities that made it.
Read the argument →Vinyl romance vs the digital reality of dancehall
One side
Vinyl-revival nostalgia
The other
Dancehall's early move to dubplate, CD-R and digital
Two documented positions, stated neutrally: vinyl-revival advocates celebrate the record shop and the 45 as reggae's authentic format and social space; others point out that dancehall itself moved early to dubplate, cassette, CD-R and digital distribution, and that romanticising vinyl can obscure how the music actually circulated. No verdict.
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