Talk:Caribbean music in the United Kingdom

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Whilst this is a good start I think more needs to be added on the 1980s and beyond. This is just some ideas off the top of my head...

Certainly there was a massive resurgence of interest in reggae in the 80s, both in the charts and also at more grass roots level with soundsystems like Jah Shaka playing roots reggae and Saxon Studio International playing dancehall. Also of interest is reggae's influence on UK-originating genres like jungle, etc, (as well as punk, rock against racism etc).

Other stuff to mention would include: Notting Hill carnival, pirate radio, DJs, record labels such as Blood & Fire, Pressure Sounds, etc., contemporary soundsytems such as Iration Steppas, and quite a bit more. John Eden 16:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Context

This articles needs an introduction to put the content into context. At the moment it just contains sections about a few different sub-topics. Are they the most important sub-topics? How were they selected? I have no idea. CalJW 00:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British African-Caribbean community

I've written this section on music for the above page [1], where there is some cross-over with this page. I can fill out Caribbean music in the United Kingdom with a load of material off the top of my head if editors are interested. It would also be helpful if I knew what direction this page was taking, to help bring the output of both pages into line. Then I can slap a See also on the British African-Caribbean community page to this one. At present I'm not sure how much Caribbean music is on this page... Peter Frampton!? I'm in shock!--Zleitzen 05:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)