MUSI 1570 Lecture Notes - My Boy Lollipop, Toots And The Maytals, Leslie Kong
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Speakers on it, 1 turn table, there was always a gap, between playing songs. The struggle what do with the gap, lead to rap. Toasting became popular/ sounded better than the music. Key things to know about sound system: no live music, playing records, dj operated, playing popular music, the sound of jamaica in 1950, they played: they didn t have a turntable, minto was went for the travelers/ A lot of minto records, didn t even make it to the south side. They were using sound system for advertising. The dj was promoting things: example joe s shoes. Motivation for sound system/ nothing to do with artist, tourist, was trying to get people to shop. Tom the great sebastian: the first successful sound system. Plantation, brought a lot of had south asian, and indians. His mother is black (african) and dad is chinese jamaican. He had the idea, to put together the system.
