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Unit 11
Grades 9-10
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From Studio One to the World: Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae

Much of what the world now recognizes as Jamaican popular music passed through a single recording studio: Studio One, founded in Kingston in 1954 by producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, an operation later described as "the Motown of Jamaica." Dodd, himself not a musician but a sharp…

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