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Jack Sowah

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Jamaican videographer credited with introducing the 'video light' and live TV-screen technology to dancehall street parties from the 1980s into the 1990s, so that patrons caught on camera appeared live to the crowd; dancers came to say a session did not truly start until his light came on, and his footage of events including Passa Passa forms a foundational visual archive of the scene.

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Passa Passa 51 (Jack Sowah Video)

YOUTUBE · rights discovery only · performance footage

Jack Sowah's own Passa Passa video series; community-archived upload; discovery-only embed.

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Jack Sowah's Dancehall Archive: A Legacy of Videography, Spectacle and Culture

WEB · rights discovery only · archive source

Sonic Street Technologies research project archive reference.

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