ENTITY · CONCEPT
Record distribution to dancehall
Well supported
Flow from producers/pressing plants/distributors/shops to selectors, dances, radio and overseas retail.
At a glance
- Type
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- Confidence
- Well supported
- Era
- Open era →
Connections
Debate & reception
How people argued about the music — praise, criticism and public debate. See all debate & reception →
debate
Distributor consolidation: vital pipeline or diaspora gatekeeper?
Two documented readings of the big reggae distributors, stated neutrally: one sees Jet Star and VP as indispensable infrastructure that carried Jamaican music to shops across Britain, Europe and North America; the other worries that heavy consolidation let a few distributors narrow what reached the counter and which artists broke abroad. Neutral framing. Sources: Jamaica Observer; British Record Shop Archive; VP Records history.
Stance: big distributors as vital infrastructure vs gatekeepers narrowing what reached shops