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"Cherry Oh Baby," Eric Donaldson's win at Jamaica's 1971 Festival Song Competition, became an enduring reggae standard covered by artists including UB40 and the Rolling Stones - an unusually long afterlife for a song that began as a national song-contest entry rather than a commercial single.

'Final Warr' was a 2010 installment of the long-running Death Before Dishonour sound-clash series, won by Manchester Parish sound Black Kat and its operator Pink Panther, who took the Squingy Cup.

Jamaican sound system associated with 1990s dubplate and clash culture; later accounts connect it to owner Errol "Fada Duss" Hayles and Bounty Killer specials, with surviving tapes documenting clashes against Killamanjaro, Bass Odyssey and other sounds.

Capleton's annual charity stage show, first staged in 2000 in his home parish of St Mary and raising funds for local schools and hospitals; it returned in 2024 at the Gray's Inn Sports Complex, Annotto Bay after a hiatus.

Annual January 6 celebration marking Maroon history and community memory at Accompong.

Division of the Institute of Jamaica established in 1973 to document African cultural retentions; merged in 1990 with the Jamaica Memory Bank, holding thousands of audiovisual records of folk song, ceremony and oral history across the parishes.

Long-running live-reggae beach venue on Negril's Seven Mile Beach that has staged nightly roots-rock-reggae shows for more than three decades.

Research index concept for linking Alpha-trained musicians to instruments, bands, studios and recordings only when a reliable school, interview, discography or obituary source supports the connection.

Kingston Catholic institution whose music training is repeatedly documented as important to Jamaican brass, jazz, ska and reggae musicians.

Institutional music-education lineage associated with Jamaican music training and Alpha Boys School/Alpha Institute history.

Official Alpha and JIS materials document Alpha's focus on ska, reggae, rocksteady, mento, ensemble performance and music-industry training, useful for linking education to the older Alpha Boys School lineage.

Alpha School of Music is a contemporary music-training programme on the Alpha campus offering Jamaican music study and ensemble performance, extending the Alpha music legacy into formal tertiary-style education.

Large concert hall at 91-12 144th Place in Jamaica, Queens, that emerged by the late 1990s as New York's premier reggae and dancehall venue and a marquee stage for World Clash and East Coast sound clashes.

Kingston sound system co-founded by David Muir after leaving Campion College; South Florida Caribbean News reports that Ambassadors played Kingston venues including House of Leo alongside Stone Love and Front Line on the Red Hills Road strip.

Amina Blackwood-Meeks is a Jamaican storyteller, cultural scholar and custodian of the island's oral tradition, holding a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies and directing the Culture in Education Programme in Jamaica's Ministry of Education; she founded Ntukuma, the Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica, and successfully petitioned for a National Storytelling Day.