Dub

Introduction - Electronic music in Jamaica: dub in the continuum of Jamaican music - 'Every spoil is a style': the evolution of dub music in the 1970s - The 'Backbone' of Studio One - Jus' like a volcano in yuh head! - Tracking the 'Living African Heartbeat' - 'Java' to 'Africa' - 'City too hot': the end of the roots era and the significance of dub to the digital era of Jamaican music - Starship Africa: the acoustics of diaspora and of the postcolony - Coda: electronica, remix culture, and Jamaica as a source of transformative strategies in global popular music.