Word: trenchtown
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...remember when we used to sit in the government's yard in Trenchtown Observing the hypocrites, mingling with the good people we meet...
...Capitalism. Marley is Jamaica's superstar. He rivals the government as a political force. The mythical hero of his last album, Natty Dread, has already become a national symbol. Marley is a cynosure both in Jamaican society and in the trenchtown ghetto where he grew up. He seldom appears in either milieu, but when he does, it is with a retinue that includes a shaman, a cook, one "herbsman" laden with marijuana, and several athletes...
...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...