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Steve Barrow
Well supported
British reggae authority who co-founded the Daddy Kool record shop in Soho in 1975, later launched the archival Blood & Fire reissue label and co-wrote the Rough Guide to Reggae — a figure who moved from the shop counter to become one of the music's leading historians and reissue curators.
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- Well supported
- Sources
- The Black Music Record Shop history; Blood & Fire; Rough Guide to Reggae.
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Reggae reissues: archival preservation or profiting from the originators?
One side
Reissue labels as archival preservation
The other
Profiting from the originators who saw little
A documented debate around specialist reissue labels, framed neutrally: supporters credit them with rescuing, licensing and beautifully repackaging neglected roots and dub for new audiences; critics question how much reaches the Jamaican artists and producers who created the music. No allegations of wrongdoing are asserted here; positions are paraphrased.
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