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Pioneers of Jamaican music talk about how bands used to play at dances, and take long food breaks............and the rest is history.
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So, curry goat helped create the Jamaican sound systems in the 1950s
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Pioneers of Jamaican music talk about how bands used to play at dances, and take long food breaks............and the rest is history.
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Sir Coxson Dodds got the idea from seeing southerners in the states having outdoor parties, and getting money, so he brought the idea to Jamaica. He had access to American music from wokring here, that is why his sound system was considered the best, and first.
The toasting came from them listening to the radio in the states as well. Toasting is just jive talking. This is why they call themselves dj's, while rappers say mc's. Jamacians were truly emulating radio dj's, while rappers were emulating Masters of Ceremonies at a party. The american dj just played music, but with different style. Jamacians just played the music, nothing else, while talking slick on the mic like radio dj's. This is also why they used one turntable, American dj's used two because disco dj's were changing the game.
Sound Systems themselves is just a term for mobile dj's.
The toasting came from them listening to the radio in the states as well. Toasting is just jive talking. This is why they call themselves dj's, while rappers say mc's. Jamacians were truly emulating radio dj's, while rappers were emulating Masters of Ceremonies at a party. The american dj just played music, but with different style. Jamacians just played the music, nothing else, while talking slick on the mic like radio dj's. This is also why they used one turntable, American dj's used two because disco dj's were changing the game.
Sound Systems themselves is just a term for mobile dj's.
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This is false.
There was at least one generation of outdoor party sound systems in Jamaica before Dodd. The early ones used the P.A. systems that politicians/public speakers would use at rallies
Hedley Jones changed all of that by constructing speakers and designing amps more suited to playing music rather than speeches in 1947 . He drowned out a competing outdoor party with his superior technology. That rival asked to buy a custom system like his and the rest is history. Jamaican Sound Systems with equipment designed FOR music.
Wake the Town & Tell the People:Dancehall Culture in Jamaica
Coxsone openly credits a local Jamaican sound system operator,Roy White, as his influence to create his own sound system. Working in America later gave him the means & access to purchase more powerful equipment than what was available for purchase back in Jamaica. And also a way to get American R&B singles before they were imported to the JA market.
Vibe Magazine Dec.2002
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Well then all of these books, and articles are wrong, because I got that from a book on the history of reggae, and its told in numerous articles!
And in the vibe article he doesn't say Roy white had a sound system, he said had a cabinetshop that he would go listen to the music playing, and use that to make playlist. Remember a sound system is a mobile dj in Jamaican terms. Also, the PA systems played music after rallies & speeches, that is not a party. You are reaching with that one!
The article also says studio one helped create the first rapper, but we know that is false because there were black Americans already rapping to a beat in Jazz, and Gospel. Plus what they call rapping is just jive talking which they got from radio dj's, I explained that earlier. These journalists should be ashamed with telling lies!
This is why I take what these books write with a grain of salt, and use common sense, while listening to the people who were there. That BBC documentary says the same thing the book says as far as sound system dj's going to the states to get their music, and gain recognition. It also says they listened to the radio signals coming in from florida, but fails to mention radio dj's who did "toasting" was real big back then, and THAT is where Jamaicans got toasting from. Early MC's who were the speakers for Dj's such as "Coke la rock" did the same thing, because the radio dj was BIG back then. I will admit that Jamaicans were the first, and most likely the only ones, who put it on record.
Here's an example of early radio djs "toasting"
As far as Hedley jones, from the link you gave it t says the same thing I just said. What do you define as a sound system? If you mean a literal sound system then you are right, he was the first to bring it Jamaica with his amp, but Tom Wong didn't have sound system meaning a mobile dj unit, he gave parties at a dance. So, Coxsonn Dodd was the first with his sound system meaning mobile djing.
I don't know how to do the links but it was in google books. Here is his obituary, but there are other writings saying it:
Obituary: Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd
"In the early 1950s, Dodd worked as a farm labourer in the United States. Having seen the money being made at outdoor block parties he started thinking about an entry into the music business."
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