About the Author:
Stuart Baker is the founder of the venerable UK-based Soul Jazz Records label and Sounds Of The Universe shop. Steve Barrow is one of the world's leading compilation producers and historians of reggae music, and co-founder of Blood & Fire Records.
Details
Format: Flex-cover Book, 8" x 11", 480pp
Label: Soul Jazz Books
Year: 2012
Condition: New
"Reggae 45 Soundsystem" features over 1000 full-size record label designs that span the history of reggae music. The book is compiled by the renowned author and reggae expert Steve Barrow (Rough Guide to Reggae/Blood and Fire Records) and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records). Text by Steve Barrow and Noel Hawks.
As well as the stunning full-size 45 designs, this book is filled with text on many of the records, artists, producers and record companies featured in the book.
The 45rpm 7” single is at the heart of reggae music, the main tool in which reggae music has been communicated to the public by the deejays in the dancehalls of Kingston, through to its dissemination worldwide, over the last 50+years.
These unique label designs give us a hidden history of design that is raw, innovative and hip. Ever since the birth of the Jamaican music industry through to the present day, these idiosyncratic label designs have helped illustrate, signify and energise the music that they accompany.
Label: Soul Jazz Books
Year: 2012
Condition: New
"Reggae 45 Soundsystem" features over 1000 full-size record label designs that span the history of reggae music. The book is compiled by the renowned author and reggae expert Steve Barrow (Rough Guide to Reggae/Blood and Fire Records) and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records). Text by Steve Barrow and Noel Hawks.
As well as the stunning full-size 45 designs, this book is filled with text on many of the records, artists, producers and record companies featured in the book.
The 45rpm 7” single is at the heart of reggae music, the main tool in which reggae music has been communicated to the public by the deejays in the dancehalls of Kingston, through to its dissemination worldwide, over the last 50+years.
These unique label designs give us a hidden history of design that is raw, innovative and hip. Ever since the birth of the Jamaican music industry through to the present day, these idiosyncratic label designs have helped illustrate, signify and energise the music that they accompany.