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The Big Three sound systems

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Collective name for the mid-1950s Kingston sound-system powers - Sir Coxsone Downbeat, Duke Reid the Trojan and King Edwards the Giant - whose rivalry after Tom the Great Sebastian's heyday drove exclusivity, dance-war tactics and eventually local record production.

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