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…Since the birth of our [Jamaican] modern popular music, from Duke Reid and Clement Dodd in the sixties, through Sly and Robbie in the eighties, to the present, with companies like Jet Star and VP Records, our artistes and producers have challenged the status quo and bucked the commercial trends, in what was, back then, somewhat of an intuitive revolution in the business of marketing music. Now, finally, the rest of the world is catching up, as has been admitted in the comments above, by two big movers and shakers at the pinnacle of the industry.
— The Jamaica Observer, on Tom Silverman and Eric Garland’s NMS address, the state of music marketing, and what the history of Jamaican music might teach us.
