Saxophonist Dean Fraser— By Karrie Williams— Professor Hopeton Dunn, director of the Caribbean Media and Communications Institute (CARIMAC), says the high level of unprofessional conduct being displayed by some persons locally, is responsible for the current decline facing the local music industry. “In my estimation, the music and artistic industry, in terms of its growth and development, is a work in progress that has brought Jamaicans tremendous pleasure, great happiness and niceness, but also considerable pain and worry,” he said while speaking at a recent panel discussion at the University of the West Indies, Western Jamaica Campus. “It is a work in progress, (and), as a profession, it is not quite there; yet there are many artists behaving unprofessionally, (who) are blocking the advance of this sector.” “What is required in part is a … Read entire article »