Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music
- Author: Hitchins, Ray
Working as a session musician in Jamaica since the early 1980s, Ray Hitchins is uniquely placed to comment on the island's studio practices. ... Hitchins interviewed key studio personnel to... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Jamaica's first recording studio
- The demand for new styles of recorded music
- Establishing an internationally competitive recording model
- Establishing a Jamaican sound
- The 1970s-1980s: a period of dramatic change
- Drum machines and synthesisers: the serial recording model
- The riddim production method: the audio engineer as music arranger
- Computer-based recording and the multi-role producer in the 1990s
- A Jamaican recording studio ethnography
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index.