Word: trenchtown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forty percent is fantasy." Fantasy prevailed last Saturday night; little frustration showed. "We come from Jamaica with the message of peace and love," Jimmy Cliff announced during the concert, but such messages sound simple when separated from their roots. Reggae is street music from the West Kingston slum, Trenchtown, and springs from the mass of poor, disenfranchised black Jamaicans. On the one hand reggae is a transcendent music. On the other it is an extremely bitter and very political expression of social injustice. This transcendent quality comes in songs like Who Feels It, Knows It, from Jimmy Cliff's latest...