# Bass Culture

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- Book: [Bass Culture](https://www.bookquiver.com/lloyd-bradley/bass-culture) ([Bass Culture.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lloyd-bradley/bass-culture.md))
- Authors: [Lloyd Bradley](https://www.bookquiver.com/lloyd-bradley)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-817-3
- Published: 2001-08-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica, from colonial island to troubled independence, and Jamaicans, from Kingston to London.