Reggae, Sugar Minott and Nahki — the Japanese experience
Reggae, Sugar Minott and Nahki — the Japanese experience
It would seam nothing short of divine providence, a week after the passing of reggae/dancehall kingpin Sugar Minott, that a Japanese professor in music presented a paper in Kingston, Jamaica on the birth and impact of reggae in Japan in which the role of the departed crooner was highlighted.
Under the theme ‘Locating the Japanese and the Jamaican in Japanese Reggae/Dancehall’, Professor Noriko Manabe’s paper, presented in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre, UWI, Mona on Tuesday, focused on the indigenisation of the Jamaican music in Japan.