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The music-education lineage of the Alpha Boys School, the Kingston institution run by the Sisters of Mercy whose band room trained Don Drummond, Tommy McCook, Rico Rodriguez and generations of Jamaican brass. Its successor programmes continue the trade-school tradition that gave ska its horn section.

Alpha School of Music is a contemporary music-training programme on the Alpha campus offering Jamaican music study and ensemble performance, extending the Alpha music legacy into formal tertiary-style education.

B-Rich Productions is a dancehall production identity associated with Richard "Shams" Browne, part of the 2000s riddim economy where production crews, selectors and dancers helped push new tracks through parties, radio and international mixtape circulation.

Black Chiney is a Miami-based Jamaican sound and production crew formed in 1999 by Chinese-Jamaican DJs and producers Supa Dups, Bobby Chin, Willy Chin and Walshy Fire. Its mixtapes joined dancehall juggling to Miami bass before the members expanded into international production and touring; press accounts identify it as the first Jamaican sound to tour mainland China.

The statutory regulator of broadcasting and cable services in Jamaica, established under 1980s broadcasting legislation and based on Central Avenue, Kingston, best known in music history for its content directives, including the February 2009 rules against 'daggering' and edited-explicit content and the 2022 directive against glorifying crime, guns and scamming.

Kingston dancehall and reggae production house founded by Jordan McClure and David Hayle, known for polished contemporary riddims and hits including Chi Ching Ching's 'Crick Neck'.

Dancehall and reggae production company and label launched by radio selector and producer ZJ Chrome in 2007, source of riddims such as Chromium and Contra.

Don Corleon Records is the production house associated with Don Corleon, a key 2000s label identity for riddim-driven releases that connected Jamaican singers, deejays and international reggae audiences.

Jamaica's national arts college, in Kingston, teaching music, drama, dance and visual art. Its School of Music has trained a substantial share of the island's working musicians and arrangers, and it functions as the formal counterpart to the apprenticeship the studios and sound systems provide.

Kingston production team formed in the early 1990s by Colin 'Bulby' York and Lynford 'Fatta' Marshall, a prolific riddim workshop that built chart hits and worked almost exclusively with Beres Hammond in the late 1990s.

The University of the West Indies' scholarly wing for the music — the Reggae Studies Unit at Mona, with its conferences, publications and archives. Its existence marks the music's passage into the academy on home ground, studied where it was made rather than only from abroad.

A Jamaican record label and production house founded by Rvssian in December 2007, associated with modern, trap-inflected dancehall and with hits by Vybz Kartel and other contemporary artists.

The Institute of Jamaica is a national cultural institution whose divisions and events include music-history programming, exhibitions and public lectures that help document Jamaican music as heritage.

A Jamaican human-rights advocacy organisation founded in 1998, the first of its kind on the island, which became one reference point in the international debate over dancehall lyrics and the Stop Murder Music campaign. Its office address is kept private for safety.

Dancehall production company built around Justus Arison and the late Patrick 'Roach' Samuels, whose 2011 Overproof riddim - voiced by Konshens and others - was one of the year's defining juggling rhythms.