Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae from 1979 to 1988In the 1970s reggae music burst forth from its birthplace of Jamaica and took over the world. Who would have ever thought that one of the first outposts it captured on its way to global domination would be an unlikely city known mostly for its Brahmin heritage and bluecollar brawlers as well as for violent racial polarization? Boston, Massachusetts was the first region in the US to really get reggae, adopting it as early as 1973 when the citys huge