


Over generations they have in effect used the sound system as a living laboratory for refining the understanding both the propagation of auditory experience and its affects on the bodies and embodiment of the crowd. It starts by recognizes the science and scyence of the ways of knowing of the engineers who invented the phonographic instrument of the dancehall set as a technology that could become a model for sonic media more generally.

This is in order to find out how this might be a source of knowledge for other media. This paper explores the ways of making of the audio engineers who design and build the street technology of the dancehall sound system set of equipment. SSO Panel and Events at Global Reggae Conferenceīorders, Limits and Listening: sound system research methodologiesġ) The Sonic Laboratory of the Sound System: the Audio Engineers’ Methods of Knowing and Making – Professor Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths, University of London) This conference also comes at a time when Kingston celebrates its designation as a creative city for music by UNESCO in December 2015. This conference is being staged at a time when we celebrate Bob Marley’s birth and the very foundation, the space – dancehall – through which the world has consumed seven distinct musical genres in mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, nyabinghi, dub and dancehall. The University of the West Indies, Mona – Jamaicaįor artistes, industry practitioners, researchers, academics, and fans… The Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus announce the fifth biennial Global Reggae Conference under the theme “Dancehall, Music and the City”. Sound System Outernational researchers are heading to the Global Reggae Conference at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica! There will be a research panel, and there will be both a screening of “Weapon is my Mouth” and a dance courtesy of Ba-Ba Boom outta Naples.
