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Record-shop heritage recognition

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The wave of formal heritage recognition given to reggae record shops — blue plaques for Peckings (2022), Greensleeves and Sonny Roberts's Planetone, and Toronto's 2021 Little Jamaica heritage study — treating the shop counter as a site of documented cultural history worth preserving.

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Type: concept
Confidence: Well supported
Era: Open era →

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Story · Well supportedFrom Little Jamaica to Fulton Mall: the diaspora record shop

In the diaspora the reggae shop was community infrastructure.