Wax Poetics Issue 20

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Five years strong. For our 20th Issue, we pay tribute to Jamaican-music pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry and members of the Memphis musical family, Eightball & MJG. Buy the Playlist!

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Featured Articles:
  • Lee "Scratch" Perry
    In 1978, Lee "Scratch" Perry was at the peak of his powers. But by the end of the year, Perry would virtually abandon recording. In an extract from People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry, David Katz explores Perry at the precipice.
  • The Soul Syndicate
    In 1979, Jerry Stein and Jeff Roth went to Jamaica to film their favorite band, the Soul Syndicate. It took the film Word, Sound and Power 25 years to officially come out — about the same time for the legendary band itself to reunite.
  • Bullwackie
    Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes, based in New York since 1967, began producing actively in the early '70s, establishing a prolific reggae outpost in the Bronx, fed by a growing expatriate Jamaican community.
 
Also Includes:
  • Re:Discovery All-reggae section: Trinity, Ackie, Sparrow's Troubadours, Band of Mercy and the Salvations, and Anthony Red Rose.
  • Obituary In Ornette's Orbit and Beyond: Dewey Redman (1931-2006)
  • Audio Media: An Archival Perspective on Recorded Media Subject: Magnetic Tape (pt. 1 of 3)
  • This Revolution Was Televised Good Times creator Eric Monte
  • Secret Ingredient Percussionist Johnny Griggs flavored the J.B. stew
  • Sanctified Dance Hall Early '80s sound system in an abandoned Paris church
  • North Bronx Roots Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes's once-overlooked reggae label Wackie's is seeing new light
  • Can You Hear What I Hear? Walter Sear and his Sear Sound are the last of the analog champions
  • The King Size Soul of Curtis Ousley By John Kruth
  • Scorpio Rising Dennis Coffey and the birth of psychedelic soul
  • Graffiti's Not Hip-Hop. If You Call It That, Then Stop. Essay by Morgan Wells
  • Memphis Sons Orange Mound natives Eightball & MJG are a living legacy
  • Academic Archive Volume XIII Clothesline Revival's View of a Century
  • Andy Votel Psychedelic librarian in the global archives
  • Toronto Gets Tropical Jamaicans in Canada cultivate U.S. funk and soul

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