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Ivorian economic capital where Alpha Blondy was discovered on the television talent show First Chance and recorded his breakthrough album Jah Glory, establishing the city as a launching point for Ivorian reggae alongside Tiken Jah Fakoly’s early career.

St Elizabeth Maroon town whose annual January celebrations preserve Maroon memory, drumming and public ceremony.

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.

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.

Anchor Recording Studio is tied to Gussie Clarke's Music Works/Anchor production infrastructure, a late-1980s and 1990s environment associated with cleaner digital production, international reggae releases and dancehall's shift toward more tightly managed studio systems.

Mad Professor-associated London studio/label important to UK dub, lovers rock and digital dub.

Arrows Recording Studio appears across dancehall and dubplate-era discographies as a Kingston voicing and recording room, part of the practical studio network selectors and producers used for specials, versions and fast-moving single releases.

Downtown Brooklyn record store at 494 Fulton Street, across from Albee Square Mall, that from the 1980s into 2006 was one of New York's great vinyl meccas for hip-hop and reggae heads — a gathering place for DJs, selectors and collectors that fell to the digital-download era.

A Greenwich Farm street cited in sound-system history as the location associated with Coxsone Dodd's early operations and West Kingston dance culture.

Coastal village in Westmoreland that is the birthplace and burial place of Wailers co-founder Peter Tosh, now a pilgrimage point on the south-west coast.

Edo State capital where the reggae group Jastix formed in the early 1980s, launching Majek Fashek and Ras Kimono, making it a founding hub of Nigerian reggae alongside Lagos.

1970s sound system based in the Greenwich Farm area of Kingston, running vocal tunes of the day by singers such as Dennis Brown, Horace Andy and John Holt; deejay Jah Stitch became a regular on the set after leaving Lord Tippertone.

Black Kat is a Jamaican sound system based in Manchester Parish, active since the early 1990s and rated among dancehall's most feared clash ('killing') sounds. It has competed against King Addies, Bodyguard, Stone Love, Metro Media and Bass Odyssey, and won the Squingy Cup at the 'Final Warr' installment of the Death Before Dishonour clash series.

Bluefields Bay area on Westmoreland's south coast adjoining Belmont; part of the 'Peter Tosh country' stretch and a site of community reggae events at Bluefields Beach Park.

Kingston museum at Bob Marley's former home and studio site, central to public reggae heritage tourism and education.