←ExploreENTITY · CONCEPTDiaspora migration routesProbableA Jamaican cultural concept associated with the global era. Starter record pending editorial verification.Share a memoryCorrect this recordAdd a source leadAt a glanceTypeconceptConfidenceProbableEraOpen era →Style, language, faith & wider cultureConnectionslinked by · associated withDJ Kool HercJamaican-born DJ Kool Herc carried sound-system technique to the Bronx, a key diaspora music route, per Bass Culture.linked by · associated withErrol 'Irie' MyrieWorked in the Brooklyn/NYC Jamaican diaspora dancehall scene.linked by · associated withDennis MorrisJamaican-born, raised in London, documented Black British life.linked by · associated withBlack Atlantic musical exchangeMusical exchange follows the same diaspora routes of people and records.linked by · associated withBrad's RecordsIt served the Jamaican migration into the Bronx.linked by · associated withRawlston CharlesHe built the shop to serve New York's Caribbean migrant community.linked by · associated withFulton Street record corridor (Brooklyn)It grew with Caribbean migration into Brooklyn.linked by · associated withLittle Jamaica (Eglinton West)The district grew from Jamaican migration to Toronto.linked by · associated withStraker's RecordsThe shop served New York's Caribbean migrant community.linked by · associated withFlatbush / Little Caribbean, BrooklynA Brooklyn corridor built by post-1960s Jamaican migration.linked by · associated withExco LeviExco Levi's career illustrates a Jamaica-to-Canada migration route common among diaspora reggae artists.linked by · associated withSão Luís, Maranhão (Brazil)Reggae reached São Luís in the 1970s via Caribbean radio signals and port trade, one of the genre's clearest non-Jamaican diaspora migration routes.linked by · associated withAfua CooperHer career traces the Jamaica-to-Canada dub poetry migration route.In storiesStory · ProbableFrom Kingston to the Bronx: DJ Kool Herc and the Sound-System Roots of Hip-HopHow a Jamaican teenager carried the logic of the dancehall sound system into a South Bronx rec room and helped set hip-hop in motion.
