Sound systems, mobile Reggae clubs, constantly travel back and forth across Europe to play the latest singles and pit their style and skill against each other. While the roots of Reggae and dancehall lie in Jamaica, they are part of a global network, an ongoing musical diaspora. Outernational is a book about the West Indians Daddy Boastin, Fabulous and Isa, who found love in Sweden and remained, and how, together with Flash, a Swede, they run Trinity, Swedens best established sound system. It also describes culture clashes ...
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Sound systems, mobile Reggae clubs, constantly travel back and forth across Europe to play the latest singles and pit their style and skill against each other. While the roots of Reggae and dancehall lie in Jamaica, they are part of a global network, an ongoing musical diaspora. Outernational is a book about the West Indians Daddy Boastin, Fabulous and Isa, who found love in Sweden and remained, and how, together with Flash, a Swede, they run Trinity, Swedens best established sound system. It also describes culture clashes in a country where religion seems to have lost all meaning.
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