Bass Culture

For reggae's first major account, Black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, local music that conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby, and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica, from troubled independence to colonial island. Jamaicans, from Kingston to London.