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The Jamaica Gleaner
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The Jamaica Gleaner is a long-running Jamaican newspaper whose archive is essential for documenting music history: event listings, advertisements, reviews, obituaries, court-adjacent public records, festival reports and debates around reggae and dancehall.
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Telling reggae's story: Jamaican domestic press or international specialist outlets?
One side
International specialist press expanding global visibility
The other
Jamaican domestic press's closer, more contextual authority
Reggae and dancehall have long been documented on two tracks: Jamaican outlets such as the Gleaner reporting the culture as home news, and international specialist titles - Germany's Riddim, the US's Reggae Report, Britain's Black Echoes, and today's Reggaeville - interpreting it for overseas audiences. Some value the international press for the global visibility and dedicated column inches it gave the genre when mainstream music media largely ignored it; others argue the fullest, most contextually accurate account of the culture has always come from Jamaican journalists closest to it.
Read the argument →The rude-boy scare: real crime wave or media panic?
One side
A real rise in youth violence
The other
A press-amplified moral panic scapegoating poor youth
Two documented framings of 1960s rude-boy violence: one treats it as a genuine rise in youth crime demanding a firm response, the other as a press-amplified moral panic that scapegoated poor young men. Neutral framing; no verdict.
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