Does reggae really need a dancehall X Factor?

Spoiler alert! BBC4 documentary travels to Jamaica and roundly fails to capture its manic musical energyIt has become a cliche of documentary film-making that a project which sets out to capture people's differences will only end up emphasising how alike we all are. How many times must a western crew have voyaged up the Amazon, hoping to capture footage of an undiscovered tribe who ritually sacrifice their first-born to the monkey god, only to find a bunch of loggers crowded around a TV set, bee...

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