Nyabinghi, and burru drumming. Jamaican reggae music evolved out of the earlier genres mento, ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip...
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There are several subgenres of reggae music including various predecessors to the form. Reggae grew out of earlier musical styles such as mento, ska and...
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development of roots reggae, with spiritual themes becoming more common in reggae lyrics in the late 1960s. Important early roots reggae releases included...
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music, amongst others. Artists have been mixing reggae with other genres from as early as the early 1970s, but initially they were described using terms...
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Leslie Kong (section Early life)
Leslie Kong (20 December 1933 – 9 August 1971) was a Jamaican reggae producer. Kong was born into a Chinese-Jamaican family. He had a "relatively comfortable...
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influences, early skinheads were very interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and early reggae (before...
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Reggae punk (also known as punk reggae) is a genre of music originating in England in the late-1970s. It is characterized by a fusion of reggae music...
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Toots and the Maytals (category Jamaican reggae musical groups)
formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music. Frontman Toots Hibbert, who died in 2020, was considered a reggae pioneer on...
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Though reggae music first developed in Jamaica, it has strong rhythmic and thematic associations with Africa and has been called "the quintessential African/third...
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Uppsala Reggae Festival is the largest reggae festival in Scandinavia. It was first held in 2001, but the name was used as early as 1995. The festival...
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