THE
HOMEGROWN
RESEARCH
PROJECT
The Homegrown research Project is an approach to share my ethnomusicological research on Jamaica’s so-called „Reggae Revival“ in a multimedia form that is accessible to everyone. The goal is to make the findings of my research and passion freely accessible to interested people, lovers of Jamaican popular music, scholars and ultimately the people to whom I owe my research results.
„the homegrown research project“ is based on my master thesis in ethnomusicology and should be understood as a digital supplement of a scientific research. It is also meant to be a stimulus for how musicological and ethnological research can be extended in the age of digitality.
Jesse Royal, Lila Iké, Jah9…
The so-called „Reggae Revival“ refers to an informal movement and a number of Jamaican artistes and creatives who have been celebrating worldwide success with their music since around 2009 and have given reggae from Jamaica a new boost.
The Reggae Revival is a locally born – homegrown – and globally grown movement.
How did the local emergence, establishment and identification of the Reggae Revival take place?
The focus of my research is on the individuals, local institutions, and infrastructures that helped the Reggae Revival emerge on the one hand, and at the same time were set in motion by the movement.
Based on a fieldwork stay in Jamaica in 2018, my research considers the Reggae Revival as a contemporary form of popular music culture in the context of local and global references.
