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REGGAE DANCEHALL PIONEERS: Alton Ellis — The Question Nobody Could Answer | Part 12 | The Credit History Refused to Settle

Podcast: History of the Caribbeans | Exploring Resilience and Culture
Published: Jun 5, 2026
Duration seconds: 146
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Series finale. He named the genre, trained the voices, and died with zero royalties. Part 12 walks the credit back to the source — Studio One, Treasure Isle, Brixton, the OD, the IRAWMA — and asks the question reggae still refuses to answer out loud: who named rocksteady?