Overview
Winner of the ARSCs Award for Best Research (History) in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music (2008) When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne King Tubby Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee Scratch Perry began crafting dub music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during reggaes golden age of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Dub involves remixing existing recordingselectronically improvising sound effects and altering vocal tracksto create its unique sound. Just as hip-hop turned phonograph turntables into musical instruments, dub turned the mixing and sound processing technologies of the recording studio into instruments of composition and real-time improvisation. In addition to chronicling dubs development and offering the first thorough analysis of the music itself, author Michael Veal examines dubs social significance in Jamaican culture. He further explores the dub revolution that has crossed musical and cultural boundaries for over thirty years, influencing a wide variety of musical genres around the globe.
- | Author: Michael Veal
- | Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- | Publication Date: April 30, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0819565725
- | ISBN-13: 9780819565723
