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Admiral Deans

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Late-1950s Kingston sound system remembered as the set where Percival "Sir Lord Comic" Wauchope worked first as a star dancer and then, from about 1959, as a toaster in the style pioneered by Count Machuki.

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Sir Lord Comic biographies; Wikipedia; Heather Augustyn ska histories.

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Musical & sonic elementsDance, body & movement

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Story · Well supportedApprenticed to the sound: the deejay ladder

Every great Jamaican deejay of the 1960s and 70s served an apprenticeship on a named sound system.

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