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Independence Day is coming. It's early evening in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, and the slumbering hills that surround the city are covered in warm blankets of shadows. It has been a season of heat--the sugarcane crop is shriveling for lack of rain, the streets are dusty and dry, and tensions are simmering. Last month there were riots as citizens clashed with police. Last night, at a Montego Bay concert, there was gunfire, a stampede, injuries...
...Independence Day is coming. It's late evening on Knutsford Boulevard in Kingston. The young Jamaicans who were outside club Asylum are safely inside. The riots, the tension--all forgotten, and perhaps they were overplayed by the press from the start. Jamaican tunes blast from the speakers; the dance floor is packed. One of the most popular ragga songs this season is Shake Yuh Bam Bam by the group T.O.K. The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild...
...sense of cultural uniqueness lost in the global-pop blender? If they are grooving to Ricky in Kingston, is there anywhere to hide? The first moments of the 21st century have been haunted by the specter of globalization, of a star-spangled world in which a parade of powerful letters--the U.N., the WTO, the IMF--hammers the diversity of the planet into homogenized goop. But Aterciopelados insisted on recording its latest CD in its hometown of Bogota. And Max de Castro projects blown-up images of old Brazilian LPs at some of his concerts to remind audiences...
...born and raised in Canada, and received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1968. In 1975, Tilghman earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Temple University...
...wasn't an overnight success. At 18, Orville Richard Burrell (his oft untamed mane earned him the nickname Shaggy) left Kingston, Jamaica, for Brooklyn, N.Y., to launch a singing career. When he couldn't make ends meet, he joined the Marines. A year later, he found himself in Iraq with an artillery battery weaving through minefields. "It was wild--the atmosphere was kind of like Three Kings," he says, referring to the 1999 movie. During the long stretches of downtime, he started writing songs and, when he was discharged two years later, decided to make another run at recording...