A Search For Jamaica With Bob Marley, 144,000Rastafarians, Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey, Haile Selassie, Christopher Columbus, Michael Manley, Perry Henzell, Swank and Time Magazines, Island Records, Chris Blackwell, Lee Perry, King Tubby, I Roy, U Roy, CBS, Peter Tosh, Country Man, Jack Ruby, Canadian Tourists, Bachelor Father, Big Youth, Burt Bacharach, Max Romeo, Ras Michael, Harry J. and LESTER BANGS.

The first thing that should be established is that I was only in Jamaica for a week, and there is no way to compress Jamaica or its incredibly rich music scene into one week, or one article. So what you are about to get is just the surface, the shell. But I hope that if you look beneath this surface you may begin, as I am, to figure out a lot of what is going on in Jamaican music, and a little of the turmoil currently besetting Jamaican society.