2023-10-14 17:28:45
October 14, 2023, 5:05 PM
At first it was just a local rhythm that became a global phenomenon and recently even an intangible world cultural heritage. “Reggae is a music that has a lot of fight in it. But only the music should fight, not the people!” This was said by none other than Bob Marley, the king of roots reggae. He is probably the main person responsible for the fact that “drum & bass music” penetrated from the Caribbean island of Jamaica to the most remote areas of the world.
With reggae, the doctrine of the Rastafarians also spread, who worship the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie as a kind of black messiah and hope for a return to their African country of origin. Today, reggae has long since become a musical lingua franca that is spoken and understood all over the world. Countless re-releases of reggae music from the 1970s, as well as contemporary productions, testify to the unbroken popularity of the music that emerged from rocksteady and ska – be it the religiously motivated roots reggae from the Rastafarian philosophy or the B-sides of the Echo-heavy dub created from Jamaican singles, whose unrestricted icon was the idiosyncratic Jamaican Lee Scratch Perry, who lived in Switzerland.
(Wh. from July 27th, 2019)
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“Reggae. The Rough Guide. The Definitive Guide to Jamaican Music, from Ska through Roots to Ragga”. Steve Barrow, Peter Dalton. Rough Guides, London 1997
“Dub. Soundscapes & Shattered Sounds in Jamaican Music”. Michael E. Veal. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown 2007
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