No Matter What the People Say, These Sounds Lead the Way
No Matter What the People Say, These Sounds Lead the Way
Jamaican culture has undeniably enriched London, and it is now impossible to imagine the city without the influence the generations of West Indians have had on it. The first islanders arriving on the Windrush, like all immigrants, brought their music and culture with them.
The calypso and Jamaican mento that arrived brightened up austere 1950s London, and subsequent generations brought ska and rocksteady, and later reggae and dub, and more recently the home-grown excitement of dubstep and grime. Jamaican music has become one of the biggest musical forces on the planet and nobody has done more to promote it to British audiences than the white middle-class boy from Oxfordshire, David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan.