So there's some sort of parallel between Jamaicans and Germans?
I don't quite get it.
Yeah, he says dub as a technique in music has its origins in the trauma caused by people being made missing during slavery.
So families were broken up, as slaves were exchanged and sold, a son or daughter, father, mother might suddenly get taken away. There would be no explanation for this.
And this caused a specific reaction, which was different to the reaction caused by, say, the person being murdered. Where there would at least be some kind of closure or answer.
So he says that dilemma gets engaged with through dub structures in African American music. I mean, he doesn't mention Jamaica specifically, he's talking about America really, but I think the point is basically the same.
And so then he says that Germans have this same collective issue, although the referents are different, they are in different places in the schema.
But the central question remains ie "what has just happened, where's it gone".
I think he explains it in this video but I'm not sure at which point