Reggae is the music genre that revolutionized Jamaican music in the late 1960s! Reggae became a social sensation not only to Jamaica but the entire world. Reggae has affected social orders all through the world with its moderate jerky tempo, contributing to the improvement of unused counterculture developments, especially in Europe. Within the 1970s, it influenced Western punk rock/ pop societies and motivated the rappers within the USA..
The social and political issues of Jamaica during the 1960's began to influence the music. "There was much unrest in Jamaica around the time of independence as the political parties jockeyed for power." -Stratton Jon.
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Redemtion Song!
Reggae term is used to describe the modern popular music of Jamaica. The term Reggae more properly describes a particular music style strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music and American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, known first as 'Rudie Blues,' then 'Ska,' later 'Blue Beat,' and 'Rock Steady.' It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rock steady; from the latter, reggae took over the bass's use as a percussion instrument.
