These 163 pages represent almost two years of work, at the end of my university studies in Fribourg. Thanks to the open-mindedness of my history professor, Mr Francis Python, I was given the opportunity to study what had already been my passion for years. A hard but wonderful challenge, that led me to meet some great people, who played a major role in rooting a reggae scene in Switzerland, like Asher Selector in Geneva, and Marc "Nof Nof" Tourtchaninoff in Neuchatel. Despite its title, its written in french...

This work is dedicated to the memory of Mathieu Lugon, who passed away in Jamaica in 1998, and who was moved by the very same passion that led me to write about and produce jamaican music.

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