Side-blown horn used in Maroon communication and symbolism, important to Jamaican memory even when not a commercial-music instrument.

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

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

Rastafari/Nyabinghi drum family used in ceremonial drumming and roots-reggae spiritual sound worlds.

A Jamaican instrument associated with the roots era. Starter record pending editorial verification.

Al Anderson is an American-born guitarist who played lead guitar with Bob Marley and the Wailers in the mid-1970s, contributing the guitar solo on "No Woman No Cry" among other recordings, before spending time in Peter Tosh's band. Source note: List of Bob Marley and the Wailers band members and Wailers Band references.

The Akan-derived cycle of trickster tales about Anansi the spider, foundational to Jamaican oral culture and children's storytelling, and a recurring source for pantomime, folk performance and lyric imagery.

Aston "Family Man" Barrett (1946-2024) was the bassist, arranger and bandleader of Bob Marley and the Wailers, whose melodic basslines anchored the group's Island-era catalogue. With his brother Carlton on drums he formed the Wailers rhythm section, having first played together in Lee "Scratch" Perry's Upsetters. Source note: The Wailers band history and reggae session-musician references.

In Rastafari discourse 'Babylon' names the systems, governments, police and institutions seen as being in rebellion against the will of Jah and as inheritors of colonial and slave-era oppression; the notion of 'chanting down Babylon' through word, sound and Nyabinghi drumming is a core theme carried into reggae and dancehall lyrics.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry's own imprint tied to his Black Ark studio (mid-1970s), distinct from his earlier Upsetter label; issued roots and dub productions cut at Black Ark.