ENTITY · PLACE / NEIGHBOURHOOD
Flatbush / Little Caribbean, Brooklyn
Well supported
East Flatbush corridor around Nostrand, Church and Flatbush Avenues, officially designated Little Caribbean, and the heart of Brooklyn's Jamaican dancehall community — sometimes called Jamaica's '15th parish'.
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- Well supported
- Sources
- BK Mag; Vice; Little Caribbean NYC.
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Brooklyn as Jamaica's '15th parish': second home or dilution of dancehall?
One side
Diaspora Brooklyn as a sustaining second home
The other
Keeping dancehall's centre in Jamaica
Documented commentary on the Jamaican diaspora scene in Flatbush/Little Caribbean, stated neutrally: many observers celebrate Brooklyn as a vital second home whose venues, record shops and studios sustained dancehall's singers and selectors through the 1980s-90s; others argue the music's centre of gravity and economy should remain rooted in Jamaica. Neutral framing; no verdict.
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