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Erin MacLeod

Erin MacLeod is the author of Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land. She writes about culture and music and teaches at Vanier College in Montreal. (May 2019)

Death and Dancehall

The assertion of the dead into the sphere of the living is evident throughout the island, but there’s a particular element of Jamaican culture that demonstrates it most powerfully, and that is the foundation of Jamaican music: the soundsystem.

May 22, 2019

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