Argonaut Sounds // 2000-2200 05.05.10

[ArgonautSounds]

Argonaut Sounds // 2000-2200 05.05.10

Episode

[ArgonautSounds]

Tonight we're 'celebrating' the quatro/cinq-ennial carve-up that is the general election with a look at the blood-stained world of Jamaican politics (or in Rasta parlance, politricks) and the interplay between music and government.

In a country where drinking the wrong colour of beer can get the shottas on your back - red stripe = red = PNP, heineken = green = JLP - and the electoral murder count usually reaches the hundreds, Jamaican musicians have always had a bit to say.

Perhaps we ought to be grateful that over here all we have to deal with is a mountain of flyers, and the fact our votes don't make any difference...