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===Jamaican dub music=== {{Main|Dub music}} {{See also|Sound system (Jamaican)}} [[Music of Jamaica|In Jamaica]], a form of popular electronic music emerged in the 1960s, [[dub music]], rooted in [[Sound system (Jamaican)|sound system]] culture. Dub music was pioneered by studio engineers, such as Sylvan Morris, [[King Tubby]], [[Errol Thompson (audio engineer)|Errol Thompson]], [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]], and [[Scientist (musician)|Scientist]], producing [[reggae]]-influenced [[experimental music]] with electronic sound technology, in recording studios and at sound system parties.<ref name="veal">{{cite book|first = Michael |last =Veal |date =2013|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kYtiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP54 |title = Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae| pages= 26–44|chapter=Electronic Music in Jamaica|publisher =Wesleyan University Press|isbn =978-0-8195-7442-8 }}</ref> Their experiments included forms of [[Tape music|tape-based composition]] comparable to aspects of ''[[musique concrète]]'', an emphasis on repetitive rhythmic structures (often stripped of their harmonic elements) comparable to [[Minimal music|minimalism]], the electronic manipulation of spatiality, the sonic electronic manipulation of pre-recorded musical materials from mass media, [[Disc jockey#Dancehall/reggae deejays|deejays]] [[Toasting (Jamaican music)|toasting]] over pre-recorded music comparable to [[live electronic music]],<ref name="veal"/> [[remix]]ing music,<ref name="cambridge20"/> [[turntablism]],<ref name="cambridge49">Nicholas Collins, Julio d' Escrivan Rincón (2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=AJbdPZv1DjgC&pg=PA49 ''The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music'', page 49], [[Cambridge University Press]]</ref> and the mixing and scratching of vinyl.<ref>Andrew Brown (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-UJLXXBqUQC&pg=PA127 ''Computers in Music Education: Amplifying Musicality'', page 127], [[Routledge]]</ref> Despite the limited electronic equipment available to dub pioneers such as King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry, their experiments in remix culture were musically cutting-edge.<ref name="cambridge20">Nicholas Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson (2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=bQeAtG97BmEC&pg=PA20 ''Electronic Music: Cambridge Introductions to Music'', page 20], [[Cambridge University Press]]</ref> King Tubby, for example, was a sound system proprietor and electronics technician, whose small front-room studio in the Waterhouse ghetto of western [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] was a key site of dub music creation.<ref>[http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/16/dubbing-is-a-must-a-beginners-guide-to-jamaicas-most-influential-genre/ Dubbing Is A Must: A Beginner's Guide To Jamaica's Most Influential Genre], ''[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]]''.</ref>
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