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No room for 'devil music'

Nation News "THERE IS AN UNCANNY SIMILARITY between the current Barbadian demonisation of Jamaican dancehall music and the much-earlier devaluation of jazz in the 1950s.

Kamau Brathwaite relates an amusing anecdote that illustrates the Barbadian elite's perennial contempt for 'foreign' musical expressions that supposedly taint the cultural purity of the nation. Brathwaite recalls the public outrage at his participation, as a schoolboy, in a single radio programme on jazz."

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