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Tomas Palermo

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American music journalist and reggae writer whose 2008 lecture "From Nanny to Ninjaman: The Role of Revolution in Jamaican Music and Society" reads five decades of Jamaican music as a continuous revolutionary tradition rather than a sequence of genres.

Its value to this archive is not the argument but the reporting: he conducted phone interviews with Steve Barrow and Clive Chin for it, and both said things on the record that are not otherwise easy to find — Barrow on politically aligned sound systems and the salute fired for a party man, Chin on political records that were cut and never released because they marked the artist.

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Tomas Palermo, "From Nanny to Ninjaman: The Role of Revolution in Jamaican Music and Society" (lecture presentation, 2008).
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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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