Ronald Lynch and Michael Thompson explain sound system history at reggae club YAAM in Berlin. Their exhibition, "The Reggae Movement Sound System: From Jamaica to Europe 1950-1995," is now on tour ...

From Sir Coxsone to DJ Kool Herc, soundsystem culture has played a pivotal role in music's evolution. So before Red Bull Culture Clash Atlanta 2018, here's a brief history of the soundsystem.

When Jamaica began making its own records, sound-system tastes would be the guide. Prince Buster and friends in 1967. Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

The lineage of today's chart-topping hip-hop and, earlier, the international reggae scene can be traced back to the sound system culture that blossomed in Jamaica during the 1950s, 60s and 70s and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica— Sound system aficionados are mourning the death of Walford 'Father Wally' Jibberson, the owner of Inner City Sound System which ruled the late 1980s and 1990s.

“From their beginnings in Jamaica, sound systems have existed in outside locations and the English countryside is a perfect place to hear them,” says Dan Wiltshire, managing director of the ...

A teenage Michael Moore, who would go on to found Jah Lion sound system, is reunited with his younger brother Anthony after arriving in Deighton, Huddersfield from Jamaica, 4 February 1967.

The sound system was Herc’s apprenticeship, and in 1967, aged 12, when he migrated with his family to the Bronx with his family in 1967 at 12 years old, he brought his schooling. Bronx, 1973.

This culture came to England from Jamaica, where sound systems would play in street parties and dancehalls, they kind of replaced the band. "In early times bands would play and the sound system ...

From Sir Coxsone to DJ Kool Herc, soundsystem culture has played a pivotal role in music's evolution. So before Red Bull Culture Clash 2017, here's a brief history of the soundsystem.