- 01“Slide Mongoose”America's twang had taken over from our Jamaican patois, mento, Burru and Poco, which were exiled from the city to the hills in the country, and instead of Jamaican songs like ‘Slide Mongoose’ and ‘Linstead Market’ the radio station and the sound systems bellowed the music of Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Fats Domino, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Willis Jackson and Patti Page, while the great…from the chapter
- 02“Linstead Market”…twang had taken over from our Jamaican patois, mento, Burru and Poco, which were exiled from the city to the hills in the country, and instead of Jamaican songs like ‘Slide Mongoose’ and ‘Linstead Market’ the radio station and the sound systems bellowed the music of Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Fats Domino, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Willis Jackson and Patti Page, while the great Louis…from the chapter
- 03“Shanty Town”There was ‘African Blood’, ‘Shanty Town’, ‘Black Head Chinee Man’, ‘Taxation’, ‘Too Hot’, ‘They Got to Come My Way’ (the first unofficial Jamaican national anthem), while the drums in ‘Oh Carolina’ reminded the people that Africa was not dead.from the chapter
- 04“Black Head Chinee Man”There was ‘African Blood’, ‘Shanty Town’, ‘Black Head Chinee Man’, ‘Taxation’, ‘Too Hot’, ‘They Got to Come My Way’ (the first unofficial Jamaican national anthem), while the drums in ‘Oh Carolina’ reminded the people that Africa was not dead.from the chapter
- 05“Taxation”There was ‘African Blood’, ‘Shanty Town’, ‘Black Head Chinee Man’, ‘Taxation’, ‘Too Hot’, ‘They Got to Come My Way’ (the first unofficial Jamaican national anthem), while the drums in ‘Oh Carolina’ reminded the people that Africa was not dead.from the chapter
- 06“Too Hot”There was ‘African Blood’, ‘Shanty Town’, ‘Black Head Chinee Man’, ‘Taxation’, ‘Too Hot’, ‘They Got to Come My Way’ (the first unofficial Jamaican national anthem), while the drums in ‘Oh Carolina’ reminded the people that Africa was not dead.from the chapter
- 07“They Got to Come My Way”There was ‘African Blood’, ‘Shanty Town’, ‘Black Head Chinee Man’, ‘Taxation’, ‘Too Hot’, ‘They Got to Come My Way’ (the first unofficial Jamaican national anthem), while the drums in ‘Oh Carolina’ reminded the people that Africa was not dead.from the chapter
- 08“Oh Carolina”There was ‘African Blood’, ‘Shanty Town’, ‘Black Head Chinee Man’, ‘Taxation’, ‘Too Hot’, ‘They Got to Come My Way’ (the first unofficial Jamaican national anthem), while the drums in ‘Oh Carolina’ reminded the people that Africa was not dead.from the chapter
- 09“Black Man”And modern dancehall reggae music does the same thing, with records like ‘Black Man’, ‘Pharaoh House Crash’, ‘Police Trim Rasta’, ‘Hard Man Fe Dead’ and Us a Deliverer’.from the chapter
- 10“Pharaoh House Crash”And modern dancehall reggae music does the same thing, with records like ‘Black Man’, ‘Pharaoh House Crash’, ‘Police Trim Rasta’, ‘Hard Man Fe Dead’ and Us a Deliverer’.from the chapter
- 11“Police Trim Rasta”And modern dancehall reggae music does the same thing, with records like ‘Black Man’, ‘Pharaoh House Crash’, ‘Police Trim Rasta’, ‘Hard Man Fe Dead’ and Us a Deliverer’.from the chapter
- 12“Hard Man Fe Dead”And modern dancehall reggae music does the same thing, with records like ‘Black Man’, ‘Pharaoh House Crash’, ‘Police Trim Rasta’, ‘Hard Man Fe Dead’ and Us a Deliverer’.from the chapter