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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). Many of its highly political songs proclaim the tenets of the Rastafarian religious movement. Instrumentation usually includes an ensemble of organ, piano, drums, and electric guitars, led by an electric bass played at high volume. Springy, offbeat rhythm characterizes its sound. It is popular internationally and has influenced African music. Bob Marley Marley, Bob, 1945–81, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and guitarist. As a member of the Wailers, a reggae band that included Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, and later on his own, Marley propelled reggae to worldwide popularity. ..... Click the link for more information. and his group, the Wailers, and Toots and the Maytals are among the best-known performers. reggaeJamaican popular music and dance style. It originated in the mid-1960s as a music of the Jamaican poor, reflecting social discontent and the Rastafarian movement. Its instrumentation features an electric bass played at high volume as a lead instrument, around which an ensemble of organ, piano, drums, and lead and rhythm electric guitars plays short ostinato phrases with regular accents on the offbeats. Reggae was popularized in the U.S. by the film The Harder They Come (1973), starring the singer Jimmy Cliff, and through tours by Bob Marley and the Wailers and by Toots (Hibbert) and the Maytals, whose influence was felt among white rock musicians. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The reggae category is dealt with like a Lifetime Achievement award; they usually give it to somebody who contributes to reggae over the years, rather than just which album they think is the best of that year. It wasn't until a few months ago, when gay activist Keith Boykin initiated a campaign to bar antigay reggae artists from performing at a concert by HIV/AIDS charity Lifeboat, that I learned "Chi Chi Man" was actually about killing gay men. Produced by veteran reggae bassist and bandleader Dennis Bovell, ``Cut'' was sparked by the imaginative drumming of Peter ``Budgie'' Clarke, who later joined Siouxsie & the Banshees and married the group's leader. |
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