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Debate & reception

CommentaryContested

Brooklyn as Jamaica's '15th parish': second home or dilution of dancehall?

One side

Diaspora Brooklyn as a sustaining second home

The other

Keeping dancehall's centre in Jamaica

What was argued

Documented commentary on the Jamaican diaspora scene in Flatbush/Little Caribbean, stated neutrally: many observers celebrate Brooklyn as a vital second home whose venues, record shops and studios sustained dancehall's singers and selectors through the 1980s-90s; others argue the music's centre of gravity and economy should remain rooted in Jamaica. Neutral framing; no verdict.

The records this concerns

Sources

BK Mag; Vice; Brooklyn News Service