Sound System Gallery
203 images Created 8 Jun 2012
A full gallery of sound system and related images from Jamaica and the UK.
If you are lucky enough to attend London's Notting Hill Carnival you will already know about Sound Systems. Pumping out loud reggae music at every street-corner, you could be forgiven for thinking that these mountains of loudspeaker cabinets and amplifiers were a British invention. But no, this innovative application of technology comes direct from the streets of Kingston Jamaica. - AB
"Sound systems came from the sounds of the earth, from the bottom floor, and it took a long time to get respect. People didn't understand why I went to college and then went with a sound system -1 was considered a worthless boy. Without the sound system there would be no Jamaican music." - Winston Blake
If you are lucky enough to attend London's Notting Hill Carnival you will already know about Sound Systems. Pumping out loud reggae music at every street-corner, you could be forgiven for thinking that these mountains of loudspeaker cabinets and amplifiers were a British invention. But no, this innovative application of technology comes direct from the streets of Kingston Jamaica. - AB
"Sound systems came from the sounds of the earth, from the bottom floor, and it took a long time to get respect. People didn't understand why I went to college and then went with a sound system -1 was considered a worthless boy. Without the sound system there would be no Jamaican music." - Winston Blake
