In the History of Jamaica a type of the music was developed in 1960 & that was a revolution in the world of music mixings, the type of music is appreaciated globally called as RAGGAE. The type of the Jamaican music includes ska, rocksteady and dub. After the style of Rocksteady RAGGAE is the style generated. Roots reggae (the original Reggae) and dancehall reggae, which originated in the late 1970s, are the two subgenerous of RAGGAE.
Reggae is founded upon a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the back beat, known as the skank. Now if you will keenly observe you will find that The beat is generally slower than that found in reggae's precursors, ska and rocksteady. You know the Rastafari movement? that influenced many prominent reggae musicians in the 1970s and 1980s, RGGAE is often associated with it.
Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, sexuality and broad social issues. RAGGAE origins are in Jamaican Ska & Rocksteady, traditional African and Caribbean music; American rhythm and blues.
In 1963, Coxsone Dodd of Studio One asked Jackie Mittoo (pianist of The Skatalites) to run recording sessions and compose original music. Mittoo, with the help of drummer Lloyd Knibbs, turned the traditional ska beat into reggae by slowing down the tempo. Bob Marley, who played an important role in popularizing reggae worldwide, recorded ska, rocksteady, and nyabinghi-drumming records early in his career.
By the late 1960s, reggae was getting radio play in the United Kingdom on John Peel's radio show. The word reggae may have been first used by the ska band Toots and the Maytals, in the title of their 1968 hit Do the Reggay. Other theories are the term came from the word streggae, a Jamaican slang term for prostitute, or that it originated from the term Regga, which was a Bantu-speaking tribe from Lake Tanganyika.
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