80s Reggae Skank Rock by Pickett - "Sky Me Wonder" (Bryce 7 music video) 100 Greatest Reggae Artists. African Holocaust - Steel Pulse. Full album Toots and the maytals. Bob Marley: Is This Love. Peter Tosh – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last. Reggae. Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, African, and Latin American music, as well as other genres.
One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms; staccato chords played by a guitar or piano (or both) on the offbeats of the measure. The tempo of reggae is usually slower than ska and rocksteady.[1] The concept of "call and response" can be found throughout reggae music. Reggae has spread to many countries across the world, often incorporating local instruments and fusing with other genres. What Instruments Are Played in Reggae Music? Reggae Music 101 - A Quick History.
By Megan Romer The Beginning: Reggae is a genre that grew out of several other musical styles, including both traditional and contemporary Jamaican music, like ska and mento, as well as American R&B.
In the early days of radio, stations were super-high-powered, and several stations from Florida and New Orleans were powerful enough to reach Jamaica, thus the R&B influence. Reggae evolved from these other genres, and really emerged as a unique form in the late 1960s. What Is Reggae Music? Significant Albums, Artists and Songs.