Who should read this book? Residents in the United States of America, Central America, South America, Canada and Europe, who are interested in starting an import business. They should know how to do it and what to watch for. Manufacturers and exporters in Asian countries, such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and India etc. who are interested in exporting products to the USA market. They should know the market condition and the mentality of the society they try to do business with. The U. S. and Canadian importers who are already in...

Bob Marley's recordings, some twenty years after his death, still enjoy enormous international popularity. For popular music fans in most of the world, reggae looms so large as to be Jamaica's only music and Marley its consummate musician. In this book, Jamaicans Kevin Chang and Wayne Chen, offer a history of reggae, accounting for its rise and devolution.Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras, each with a distinctive beat-ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dancehall. Ska dates from about 1960 to mid-1966 and rocksteady from 1966 to 1968, while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular...

"From Kumina to Mento, Ska to Rocksteady, Reggae to Dancehall, Roots to Ragga - this is the authentic story of Jamaican popular music, told for the first time by Jamaicans. In Jamaica, Reggae is more than music - it is the nation's main collective emotional outlet and its chief cultural contribution to the world. Reggae Routes examines the ways in which this uniquely popular music expresses the dreams, desires and realities of the Jamaican people, capturing the 'glad to be alive' spirit which makes Jamaican music so popular worldwide. Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras, each...