From the UK to Europe, from the US to Japan, the sound system is an intersection of social and popular music history, human and sonic migration, struggles for community and the affirmation of cross-cultural togetherness whose beginnings are in 1950s colonial Jamaica.

Caribbean migration to the UK and the US played crucial roles in popularising the sound system and its music across the globe. In the 21st century, sound system culture embraces and amplifies Jamaican-based music and most, if not all, bass-driven dance music.

In doing so, the sound system creates an archipelago of conviviality that gives a voice to a range of marginal musical and cultural communities while also changing the ways in which dance music is produced and consumed.

Join Edward George on a musical exploration of the rise of the sound system in Jamaica, its development in the UK, and its dissemination in Europe, north and south America, and Japan.

W&T Soundsystem is part of the 'Future Narratives' program, integrated into the European project Centriphery.