Dubwise: Reasoning From the Reggae Underground
Dubwise: Reasoning From the Reggae Underground
This is a Trojan horse book, ostensibly about various facets of reggae music under-represented in reggae journalism, but on a certain level really a book about Jamaican jazz. As such, the information in Walker’s book is nothing sure of invaluable, particularly about the unjustly obscure saxophonist Joe Harriot and the ska-jazz trombonist Don Drummond. In fact, Walker offers a daring revisionist history of reggae music that more heavily emphasizes the jazz contributions of Drummond than previous reggae histories (which have tended to highlight the American R&B influence).