Author(s): David Katz

Music

From the author of the acclaimed People Funny Boy, a biography of Lee Scratch Perry, comes this definitive history of reggae. Solid Foundation is the history of reggae. David Katz has interviewed over 100 reggae artists, from Jamaica, the UK and the US, going back to the earliest pioneers of reggae in the mid-1950s. He has taken over ten years to collect the interviews and it is an extraordinary feat. This is an exhaustive history charting the progression and development of the music, with all the controversies and feuds in between covered in detail, making it a very compelling read. The book will also contain over 100 integrated photographs, many of which have never been published before.