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Sound-system speaker stack
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A sound-system speaker stack - custom-built cabinets and amplifiers designed for maximum bass weight and volume - is central to Jamaican sound-system culture: the physical instrument through which a selector's records, and later a deejay's toasting, were experienced as much through the body as the ear.
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Speaker stacks are historical evidence
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Discography-only history
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Sound-system history requires attention to equipment, volume, bass, engineers and bodily experience, not only artists and songs.
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