The influence BA culture had at facilitating Jamaica’s “Dancehall”...
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Jul 24, 2026
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The influence BA culture had at facilitating Jamaica’s “Dancehall” culture in the late 50s early 60s is not to be ignored. West Indians would call the events “Blues parties,” where they played mostly BA records. They bought “Blues parties to The UK with them.
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When Jamaicans created Ska, (Jamaican RnB) you can clearly tell how influenced the artist were by Black American music and styles. Many of the earliest and most famous Ska songs are covers of BA.
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In this video here JA elders speak of how the music being played at the beginning of Dancehall culture in Jamaica, was all Black American RnB. Coxsone went to America and came back and started the sound business. He would scratch out the names of records so rivals could buy them.
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Jamaicans after ww2 would come to America to work the farms, they then discovered Black American “Block parties” with speakers out in the street. (Dancehall) They bought this style of party and the music that came with it to JA.
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Even down to the names of their DJs and Soundsystems. Black American Jazz and Bluesmen/women always created “cool” names. “Duke Ellington” “King Oliver” “Count Basie.” Jamaican artist and DJs adopted the same kind of names. “Count Matchuki” “King Tubby” “Duke Vin” etc...
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Some early JA DJs had money, so they could buy more American records, blues was major in facilitating Dancehall and “Clash” culture. Here is Bunny “Striker” Lee speaking of that.
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