November 1, 2006

Reggae

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Reggae is a form of Jamaican popular music that developed in the 1960s among Kingston's poor blacks. It draws on American "soul" music and traditional African and Jamaican folk music as well as ska, Jamaican, and British dance-hall music. Many of reggae's 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. What is "roots reggae?"
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