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Rastafarianism, a religious-cultural movement that began (1930s) in Jamaica. Rastafarians believe that Haile Selassie Haile Selassie (hī`lē səlăs`ē, –lä`sē) ..... Click the link for more information. , also named Ras Tafari, the last emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975), is the Messiah. They tend to reject European culture and ideas and are particularly noted for their use of marijuana. Reggae reggae, Jamaican popular music that developed in the 1960s among Kingston's poor blacks, drawing on American "soul" music and traditional African and Jamaican folk music and ska (a Jamaican and British dance-hall music). ..... Click the link for more information. music is heavily influenced by Rastafarianism. There are some 180,000 Rastafarians worldwide. |
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Garveyism, soon gutted as an immediate political force, fed into all the Black nationalist ideologies that came to birth in later decades from the Nation of Islam to Afrocentrism; it also fathered Rastafarianism "back home" in Jamaica. Many people view Rastafarianism as a non-Christian faith. Under the influence of Rastafarianism, the music increasingly began to deal with mystical notions of Africa and black liberation that had little to do with the "party music" that reggae had been. |
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