Alpha Boys' School : cradle of Jamaican music / by Heather Augustyn and Adam Reeves.

By:

Augustyn, Heather, 1972- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Chesterton, Indiana : Half Pint Press, 2017Description: 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780692980736
0692980733

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

781.64609 23

LOC classification:

ML3532 .A94 2017

Summary: "Behind Jamaica's global musical reverberation lies the unlikely story of a boarding school run by Roman Catholic nuns, with a brass band that helped shape the sound of some of the world's most beloved musical forms. Under a strict disciplinarian regime, 'wayward boys, ' many of whom were orphaned or from deeply troubled backgrounds and hailing from some of the toughest streets in the world, went on to lay the foundations of Jamaican jazz, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dancehall and dub."--Cover

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"Foreword by David Rodigan"--Cover

Discography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Behind Jamaica's global musical reverberation lies the unlikely story of a boarding school run by Roman Catholic nuns, with a brass band that helped shape the sound of some of the world's most beloved musical forms. Under a strict disciplinarian regime, 'wayward boys, ' many of whom were orphaned or from deeply troubled backgrounds and hailing from some of the toughest streets in the world, went on to lay the foundations of Jamaican jazz, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dancehall and dub."--Cover

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