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Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...This is earth-feeling music," says Bob Marley, another Jamaican reggae star. In the sweep of the packed Orpheum, back across the misted edges of this vague, bent-spaced box of face-lost, swaying people, this power was realized, this music embraced...
...working in industry. Some Mexicans who have entered Texas illegally earn close to $5 an hour in small factories; one was even found managing a Laredo plastics plant at $20,000 a year. The INS'S files include reports of a Greek plumber earning $12 an hour, a Jamaican carpenter earning $7 an hour and a West Indian electronics engineer taking in $17,000 a year. An immigration raid on a Miami restaurant turned up 14 illegally entered employees, including a Swiss assistant manager getting $11,000 a year. One enterprising Venezuelan was clearing $750 a week from...
...made a career out of understanding his origins. The eldest of nine children, Taj (born Henry Fredericksin New York City in 1943) lived first in the Jamaican ghetto of Brooklyn but mostly grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father, a noted jazz composer and arranger of West Indian descent, introduced his son to the likes of Meade Lux Lewis. Cow Cow Davenport and Leadbelly at an early, age. His appetite whetted. Taj sought out the early master Blues artists such as Willie Brown, Charlie Patton and Kid Bailey. His pursuit of the music of Southern country blues men developed almost...
...court's effectiveness is beyond dispute, its constitutionality is not. The Jamaican bar association is calling for repeal or at least amendment of the Gun Court Act. R.N. Henriques, a lawyer who is conducting the appeals of the first four gunmen convicted under the law, argues that Parliament acted unconstitutionally in setting up a special court that operates outside the normal judiciary system...