Kingston 1970s overview

Kingston’s emergence as a significant music centre can be attributed to two factors. The first is geographic: Jamaica was close enough to the United States to be strongly influenced by its music—New Orleans, Louisiana, radio stations could be heard in Kingston, and sailors regularly returned to Jamaica with rhythm-and-blues records that were made in the United States—but far enough away to avoid being simply absorbed by it. The second is political: because the U.S. government...