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Veal, Michael. Dub: Songscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae.(Brief article)(Book review)
Veal, Michael. Dub: Songscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae. Wesleyan Univ. Apr. 2007. c.348p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-8195-6571-6. $75; pap. ISBN 978-0-8195-6572-3. $27.95. MUSIC
In early 1970s Jamaica, Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and several other engineers took recordings of popular reggae songs or rhythm tracks and applied such studio tricks as echo, reverb, and so on to create spacey, otherworldly soundscapes that also featured tracks and vocals dropping in and out. Dub was born, and Veal (ethnomusicology, Yale Univ.; Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon) has written the first comprehensive overview of its …
