Bass Culture

The first major account of the history of reggae black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica from colonial island to troubled independence and Jamaicans from Kingston to London.