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Stascha Bader - Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae

Published: Dec. 29, 2009, 6 a.m.

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Stascha Bader is a Swiss writer and documentary director.

He was drawn by Reggae when he had first heard it in the 1970s and based his doctoral thesis on it, \\u201cElectro-Oral Poetry in Jamaica and England.\\u201d It earned him a Ph.D. degree from Zurich University and was also published in Germany.\\xa0 and was also published in Germany as \\u201cWords like Fire: Dance Hall-Reggae and Ragamuffin.\\u201d

Stascha also studied music, script writing, and directing in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and has worked, for several years, as a freelance writer and director of television documentaries.\\xa0\\xa0 His documentaries have been broadcast on Swiss National Television and 3sat. Stascha specializes in music documentaries and programs.

When he reflected back on his mass collection of Jamaican recordings, Stacha was reminded of his favorites earliest Reggae songs, from the Rocksteady era (1966-1968).\\xa0 The outcome is the previously untold story of Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae, which is Bader\\u2019s first feature film.

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