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Studio One: Jamaican “Academy”

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Peter Silverton
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Coxsone Dodd, who had encountered rhythm and blues as a migrant cane cutter in the southern United States and returned home to become one of Jamaica’s first sound-system (mobile disco) operators, founded Studio One in 1963. His crude and tiny one-track studio and pressing plant produced hits for the vocal group that later became Toots and the Maytals and employed the talents of the young Bob Marley as writer, performer, and artists-and-repertoire man. In the...

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