Word: jamaicas
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...steamy dancehalls of northwest Jamaica in the 1950s, Lee "Scratch" Perry was a teenager fresh from the sugarcane fields, scooping up prizes with his energetic renditions of dances like the Yank and the Mashed Potato to the hottest boogie-woogie and R&B tracks newly washed in from the nearby U.S. Half a century later, the tide has turned - as it did in the '60s and '70s - and it's the rhythms of the Jamaican dancehall that are now storming the U.S. (and European) charts. Leading the charge are young guns like Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, who are bending...
...more than a match for his demons. That and the gleeful giggle that accompanies his every phrase. "We'll have a good time, don't you worry," he promises. It was the same voices in Perry's head that sent him to Kingston to make music in 1961. Jamaica's capital was in ferment at the time, buoyed by imminent independence and bouncing to the sound of Ska, but increasingly mired in poverty and violence. Perry hustled, scouting records for sound systems, talent-spotting (Toots and the Maytals were a prize catch) and writing lyrics for others. Soon...
That’s one of the roommates’ typical phrases, part of a dialect that started in Sam and Chris’s hometown of Jamaica Plain and has evolved in Quincy House...
Part of that feeling of home is the ever-changing lingo that Chris and Sam brought from Jamaica Plain to Harvard. The word “such” is an important piece. Statements like “He’s such a guy,” or “He’s such a kid,” or “This is such a reality” pepper the room’s speech...
...roommates prepare to leave Harvard, they say they will miss these conversations, interspersed as they often are with joking, semi-insulting nicknames and, of course, the Jamaica Plain dialect...