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...past, Jeffreys used rock 'n' roll -a mainstream white music-to sing about his experiences as a black. On Escape Artist, the sound is more emphatically Jamaican. Indeed, Jeffreys may be the first off-island artist to have done reggae right. One of Escape Artist's best tunes is a fierce evocation of the Miami riots of 1980 done "dub" style. Dub is reggae dressed down, and Jeffreys has lately taken to wearing his hair in the braided dreadlocks favored by Jamaican Rastafarians. That is more than a gesture of style. It helps connect him a little...
Another young devotee, Sam Brown, 22, lived in Nottingham with his Jamaican-born parents before moving to London's Streatham district. He traces his radicalism to being black. As a member of the Young Socialists' London organization, Brown passed out leaflets during the Brixton riots urging young blacks and whites to protest police repression. Says Brown: "I'm a Marxist because that's the way people like me progress...
DIED. Bob Marley, 36, reggae superstar who became the foremost proponent of the jagged, pulsing Caribbean sound and a major factor in its popularity and influence; of cancer; in Miami. Son of an English army captain and a Jamaican native, he founded his band, the Wailers, in 1964, but did not achieve commercial success until more than a decade later. Marley, whose song I Shot the Sheriff was made a hit by Eric Clapton in 1974, was an outspoken advocate of Rastafarianism, a Jamaica-based political-religious cult embracing a variety of ideas and trends: reggae music, marijuana...
...four days, the cruising is done mostly by the passengers, whose pursuit of romance and adventure is as unrelenting as the wump-wump-klump of the slot machines. Even the popular drinks bear names that would turn an old salt's stomach: Virgin's Kiss, Coconut Cooler, Jamaican Dreams...
That fact alone largely explains why there are so few self-styled popular political forces in the Third World that are unabashedly pro-American. Happily, one such rarity emerged triumphant in last year's Jamaican elections, which brought Prime Minister Edward Seaga to power...