Record Roundup: Echoes Of Displacement

Resonant and joyful sounds from the worlds of reggae, hip hop, R&B, and adjacent realms.

It could be said that all music after the first drought- and famine-driven exodus from Africa has been the sound of displacement. But the arrival of “civilization” and subsequent forced movement of millions of people - most of them Black and brown - some enslaved in one area and then, generations later, pushed out in search of economic opportunity elsew…