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"From Nanny to Ninjaman: The Role of Revolution in Jamaican Music and Society" — Tomas Palermo
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A 2008 lecture presentation by Tomas Palermo, tracing revolution through Jamaican music from Queen Nanny and the Maroons to the dancehall, and arguing that the island's music is a continuous act of resistance rather than a series of styles.
It carries original phone interviews with Steve Barrow and Clive Chin, and those are the reason this archive holds it. Barrow supplies the account of sound systems that played only for one political party (Socialist Roots among them) and of dances where support was shown by firing shots for the PNP or JLP man, which he calls social theatre. Chin, producing at his family's Randy's Studio 17 in the period, describes political records being recorded and shelved because releasing them marked the artist, and names Ernie Smith leaving for Canada after "Jah Kingdom Gone To Waste".
Held as a standing reference, and cited wherever it is drawn on.
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- Tomas Palermo, "From Nanny to Ninjaman: The Role of Revolution in Jamaican Music and Society" (lecture presentation, 2008), including his interviews with Steve Barrow and Clive Chin.
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