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A New After Beat Rhythm

The Bob Marley - Freedom Time proprietors  began sending out talent scout to seek out new singing talents in large numbers. Both  radio stations Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation and Radio Jamaica Redifusion took an interest in the music business. Both radio stations took to organising regular talent radio shows each week in their studios to be heard on the radio airways by the public at large. Then came 1962, a time when Jamaica had gained independence from the British and at the same time emulating the musical style of America for quite period of time. It wasn't until a Cecil "Bustamante" Campbell (Prince Buster), decided that a new musical presentation was necessary. It should be imaginative and original to Jamaicans as a whole. Prince Buster got together with guitarist Jah Jerry who later became a member of the most successful instrumental group of the 60's Ska era; "The Skatalites band."

Jah Jerry was to lay emphasis on a new after beat rhythm. Regardless of the primordial mono recording facilities through the determination of the Ska aficionados, it was predestine to become the first actual commerce-related music of Jamaica.  In reality, the Ska was later espoused as the island's national music. Few of the younger generation in Jamaica felt rather debarred and did not contribute to the sanguinity of the early Ska music. These youths formulate a group of independence, that became known as roughnecks originated by those Rude Boys. The producers energized the "Rude Boys" grievance syndrome by getting in on the act of churning out records with rude boy lyrics. Even the sound systems gave rise to the point of getting the roughnecks to agitate other adversary competitor's sound systems that were playing nearby in the same area, this cause the crowd to leave.

 

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