REGGAE

Le reggae est un genre musical ayant émergé à la fin des années 1960, il est la plus populaire des expressions musicales jamaïcaines. Il devient, à la faveur de son succès international, un style musical internationalement apprécié, porteur d’une culture qui lui est propre. Le reggae est souvent lié au mouvement rastafari, lui-même né en Jamaïque. Mais certains Rastas, comme le mouvement Bobo Shanti, y étaient ou y sont opposés. Malgré tout, la majorité des chanteurs de reggae sont, ou se réclament rasta; le reggae pouvant être considéré comme un moyen de diffuser les idées rastafaristes.

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Reggae (/ˈrɛɡeɪ/) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, « Do the Reggay » was the first popular song to use the word « reggae, » effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. 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 as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, being 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 rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument.

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