Why Jamaican Music Nah Mek Money with Maxine Stowe | ButSeeYa
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2025
- Maxine Stowe is a decorated veteran in the international Reggae & Dancehall scene. She is a pioneer with prestigious music labels like VP Records, Columbia/Sony, and Tuff Gong Studios.
Her booming career boasts a track record of success with several of Jamaica’s top artists…signing Super Cat, Diana King, Mad Cobra, and Jimmy Cliff. She designed the explosive soundtracks for the famous Jamaican movies "Cool Runnings" and "Dancehall Queen."
"ButSeeYah," is a mini docuseries about big Caribbean personalities with controversial or outrageous views.
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Joelle Simone Powe is a Jamaican documentarian and anthropologist
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The best music in the world is old Reggae Music from 60s 70s & 80s .
Salute to Flabba Holt
Barrington Levy
Tenor Saw
Sugar Minott and so many more!
Salute to Reggae! What did you think about what Maxine said about Reggae overshadowing the rest of Jamaican Music?
Thanks for the most comprehensive and honest opinion on Jamaican music. My father was the head of the Jamaican Musician Union in the sixties for many years and I'm familiar with a lot of the people you mentioned including your relative, the late Coxstone Dodds(a great producer and discoverer of talent). I went to school with the ( late) Agustus Pablo and Clive Chin at KC and am familiar with a lot of the people you mentioned having met them at one time or another. I worked for time as a chemist at the Banana Board, but when I decided to create my music I left Jamaica(Percussionist Larry McDonald is on five of my albums) Because of the way he music industry is, especially in Jamaica, I keep a very low profile,and allow my music to sell as is. It's a shame the negative factors
(politicians, gangs, bad business people etc.) have affected the development and advancement of Jamaican music,
almost limiting it at the moment to Dance Hall and what passes as showmanship. Maybe(I hope) in a few years there will be a resurgence in Jamaican music from Jamaica. Thanks again for your great program.
Glad you found it interersting Mr. White. What are some of the challenges you've seen in your own experience?
@@joellesimonepowe876 I've found that most people now think of Jamaican music in terms of Rastafarianism, equating it with Bob Marley, and if they're following the latest trends
'DanceHall music'. Reggae was and is not only Bob Marley(having met both him and Peter Tosh a number of times). Reggae(a term coined by Toots Hibbert) consists of dozens more artists, some Rastafarian, some not.( Take the case of Dennis Brown and Max Romeo( who bemoaned(early seventies) the fact that everyone was on a rasta train). There were the Heptones, Paragons, BoB Andy, Marcia Griffiths, Ken Boothe, among others, who were also Reggae along with the Wailers. Indeed before Reggae there was Rock Steady, Ska, and Bluebeat.
A lot of your Dancehall fanatics lack the understanding of their musical roots and tend to bleech themselves, and copy previous styles not remembering or knowing about KIng Stitt or Prince Buster( among others) and their originality.
(of note the other Dance Hall music I know of comes from Texas('Asleep At the Wheel' among others),thus the lost connection between Jamaican music and American country music is often overlooked.
For myself the challenges I faced initially was the stereotype of a Jamaican artist looking a certain way and playing a certain type of music.
However after about four or five of my albums, and performing for a few years,
the (my) audience came to expect the unexpected.
I created a new musical form Who-Pa-Zoo-Tic music, utilising the broken rhythm
and making my audience expect the unexpected. One of my albums 'Life Circling Love' was even a collaboration with the French Improvisational pianist Sylvie Walder.
My audience at times is small, but that allows me the freedom of creating
without the compromise of pleasing the masses.
Money is always out there to be made, but I believe the artist, singer, musician
should try and be true to themselves at the very least, before compromising
with the prevailing factors.
Salute to Adtelligent TV for taking on this topic. Class, Capitalism and Colorism is very uncomfortable for many Jamaicans but we have to tackle these issues head on. Amazing piece of work here.
Thank you Prester John.. Indeed, it is important to keep highlighting issues.. by confronting our past we can maybe change the future.
As always, an insightful work presented; a very honest and comprehensive look at the state of Jamaican music.
Interesting analysis on the various factors that could be affecting why the music industry is not bigger than it is for us. Forms the basis of a great discussion. ❤👊🏽🙏🏽
Thank you, Pondi Road!
Truth revealed! big up, sista Stowe
Great insight and gems, could the independent route for artists controlling their masters and publishing be the way?
Interesting idea, Masterpiece! What other ideas for solutions do you have?
If this is the Maxine Stowe that Passion Minott spoke on recently; then whatever is happening there that needs fixing, it must be fixed forthwith. I don’t know any specifics of what our daughter Passion spoke, however if there is truth to all she spoke and she sound very much truthful and sincere; then Maxine Stowe should do the decent human thing that must be done Rastafari Live!!
You are so right
Am I wrong? I thought that Duke Reid and his Treasure Isle label was before Coxsone Dodd and his Downbeat and Studio One.
I dont really think so I think that the lighter skin artist didn't sing about killing and violence its something to think about nobody want to hear about killing everyday
That's one good reason , however the over arching culture in the music pro African and anti colonial
Also Hip-Hop was born from the sound systems from Jamaica. DJ Cool Hurt was from Jamaica and started DJing in the parks in New York and the black youths there started flowing over the beats playing in the sound systems and Hip-Hop was born.
The article that you mentioned in your opening are also of a Rastafarian background, shades of skin plus the music has taken on a raunchy, dunce gun culture and America has it's own undesirables in the music industry why embrace the same roughness from another country.
Facts again✅
Could this be why Vibes bleached??
until we approach the music as a business and not just singing and playing music,jamaica have lost out on a Billion dollar industry. I believe the player (meaning) people who had real money didn,t invest in music as they should, other country benefit tremendously out of the music more than us and its a shame
Its good that I listened to you and treated it as a valid perspective but you have so many things wrong that I dare not splice and dice the specifics. I will say this as a statement that will encapsulate the real essence of what is happening. The music industry is a "masala" of culture, social stratification, local and global image, bankable artists, capitalism, music business economics, western world interpretation of the music and presentation. So, your video is really short, on specifics, historical, geograpical, economic, social and political data and perspectives. Consequently, your video should be treated as a personal perspective but you need a lot more time to give a true lay of the land. Long live freedom of expression!.
One of the main factors no one talk about that play 80 % of the downfall of Reggae and Dancehall music in Jamaica and arounds cumunity out of Jamaica that have alot of Jamaican live. Radio that run by Jamaican all over, is payola, especially in Jamaica it run a muck!
Hi Ansel, this is a very interesting point. I wonder if you could explain further for someone who is new to this history.
If you go back to Reggae music, most of the songs were taken from American music culture done with the reggae rhythm... Today's musicians are loud, and dumb for the most part, in my opinion... Looking at Afrobeat, one can make a comparison... Music is a universal language but decent people are not going to give in to the degradation of women and support criminal activity... It is not just about skin tone
IT IS THE SKIN TONE........American music has nothing to do with reggae.............. Some of their music was sampled , because that's was the only music on the radio n they would not play rock steady n ska......................that's y we had dancehall...............today's music is a bunch of clowns with no morals misleading the people........ Pied pipers........
I agree with this observation 🎯💯
Maxine Stowe... WHERE IS JEAN WATT ???? What REALLY happened to Bunny Wailer ?? Huuuuu?????..... SMH
?? More information please