tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744444020349998004.post7657712387832910451..comments2024-03-20T18:37:49.933-04:00Comments on The Duff Guide to Ska: Jamaica FarewellUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744444020349998004.post-77850670934503536882010-11-10T12:54:41.394-05:002010-11-10T12:54:41.394-05:00Bob:
Thanks! Since I was a regular reader of your...Bob:<br /><br />Thanks! Since I was a regular reader of yours back then, I think you are completely right. <br /><br />Ironic how hip-hop, which was a musical descendant of dub and toasting/DJing, and created by a Jamaican who moved to the Bronx, should come back to JA and effectively obliterate reggae in the land of its birth!<br /><br />"PBS specials" indeed!<br /><br />Best, <br /><br />SteveSteve from Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14074565580429334218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744444020349998004.post-1924323113942345772010-11-10T12:02:57.657-05:002010-11-10T12:02:57.657-05:00Steve,
I can humbly suggest that what you read/he...Steve,<br /><br />I can humbly suggest that what you read/heard in the 90s was a passage from one of my early articles at ska.about.com. I had a 2-parted about my trip to Kingston in 1997 and commented about the disparity between the love of old school ska and reggae abroad and in its birthplace, particularly at that time when ska was all over the place. <br /><br />As you paraphrased, what I heard from many Kingstonites young and old was that ska music was their equivalent of our "oldies" music: doo-wop, R&B, rock-n-roll that is more readily associated with PBS specials, your parents or grandparents music, etc. I stayed in the dorms at U of West Indies campus at Mona and what rumbled through student unions and out of dorms every night was not a lick of reggae or ska, but all rap and hip-hop. The sound of Kingston was more Puff Daddy than Bob Marley at least for the mainstream. <br /><br />I had to hunt to find people who even knew who Derrick Harriot was, much less direct me to his Record Shop.Bob Timmhttp://www.hardtimesreggae.comnoreply@blogger.com