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unusual facts about Dub poetry


Dub poetry

Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ)'s album Dread Beat an' Blood first appeared in 1978, then Oku Onuora's Reflection In Red in 1979, followed by Benjamin Zephaniah's Rasta, and many others in the early 1980s onwards.


Dancehall

Dub poet Mutabaruka said, "if 1970s reggae was red, green and gold, then in the next decade it was gold chains".


see also

Cheryl Byron

Byron played one of the lead roles in the PBS film Homecoming, became a published poet in an anthology of poetry, Woman Rise, and is featured on an album of dub poetry, Womantalk, on Heartbeat Records.