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Rototom Sunsplash

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Rototom Sunsplash is a major European reggae festival that carries the Sunsplash name into a global festival context, reflecting how Jamaican festival language and reggae culture were adopted and expanded by overseas audiences.

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Events, festivals, clashes & institutionsDiaspora & global influence

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Story · ProbableReggae's European festival circuit

Long before streaming, a ring of summer festivals across Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands turned reggae into one of Europe's most durable live-music economies.

Story · Well supportedJapan, Europe and the dancehall loop

Reggae did not simply get exported. Sounds in Yokohama, Stuttgart and London built their own scenes, flew to Kingston for dubplates, and started winning.

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