Vibe merchants : the sound creators of Jamaican popular music /
Hitchins, Ray,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jamaica's first recording studio -- The demand for new styles of recorded music -- Establishing an internationally competitive recording model -- Establishing a Jamaican sound -- The 1970s-1980s : a period of dramatic change -- Drum machines and synthesisers : the serial recording model -- The riddim production method : the audio engineer as music arranger -- Computer-based recording and the multi-role producer in the 1990s -- A Jamaican recording studio ethnography.
Popular music
Sound recording executives and producers