SLAVE QUEEN, LOSE THE SHACKLES FROM YOUR MIND
SLAVE QUEEN, REMOVE THE SHACKLES FROM OUR MINDS
I TOO WAS BLIND, BUT NOW I SEE
I HAVE RELINQUISHED SLAVERY
MENTALITY.
(JUDY MOWATT, SLAVE QUEEN)
Hope Road is a multi-layered visual and sound exhibition
exploring the birth, development, and significance of Reggae music and its sub genres from post-colonial era to present time. How and why this music formed in a politically and economically tattered Kingston ghetto is a testimony to the power and experience of this music.
Within a few short years, Reggae, with its allegiance to change, created a strong cultural and global identity while at the same time forging a powerful and crucial substrate for the new modernity of pop music culture to embrace and build upon.
This exhibition will explore this new ideology of sound with its bold musical strategies, which profoundly changed acoustic engineering and sound technology concepts. The museum experience will transport audiences
on a sonic journey using