Author Article By Rio F
In 1968 many years known as the birth of reggae music. Actually there is no specific incident that became a marker early origins, except for switching the musical tastes of Jamaican Ska and Rocsteady, which was popular among the young in the early half to the end of the 1960s, the new musical rhythm slower tempo: reggae. Perhaps frenetic and fast tempo Ska and Rocksteady less hit by the economic and social conditions in Jamaica are stressful.
The word "reggae" probably derived from the pronunciation of the African accent of the word "ragged" (clumsy motion-like bodies pounding on people who dance to the music ska or reggae). Rhythm of reggae music itself influenced musical elements of R & B was born in New Orleans, Soul, Rock, rhythmic Afro-Caribean (Calypso, Merengue, Rhumba) and Jamaican folk music called Mento, rich with African rhythms. Rhythm of the music that many consider to be the precursor of reggae is ska and rocksteady, the form of R & B musical interpretation that developed in Jamaica is loaded with Afro-American musical influences. Technically and musically a lot of exploration conducted Ska musicians, such as shaking the guitar upside down (up-strokes), putting pressure weak tone on tone (syncopated) and multi-rhythmic drum beats are complex.
Techniques and Rocsteady Ska musicians in playing a musical instrument, imitated by many reggae musicians. But much slower tempo music with bass and rhythm guitar hammering more prominent. Vocals are heavy with songs like pattern praises (chant), which influenced tetabuhan rhythm, singing and mystical ways of Rastafari. The slower tempo of the music, in time to support the delivery of messages through the lyrics of songs associated with the Rastafari religious traditions and socio-political problems of humanistic and universal.
The album "Catch A Fire" (1972), which was launched Bob Marley and The Wailers quickly catapulted to the reggae outside Jamaica. Popularity of reggae in the United States is supported also by the film The Harder They Come (1973) and reggae rhythms played by white musicians such as Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and UB40. Reggae rhythms may then affect streams music in the decade after that, call it a variant of reggae hip hop, reggae rock, reggae blues,etc.
In 1968 many years known as the birth of reggae music. Actually there is no specific incident that became a marker early origins, except for switching the musical tastes of Jamaican Ska and Rocsteady, which was popular among the young in the early half to the end of the 1960s, the new musical rhythm slower tempo: reggae. Perhaps frenetic and fast tempo Ska and Rocksteady less hit by the economic and social conditions in Jamaica are stressful.
Techniques and Rocsteady Ska musicians in playing a musical instrument, imitated by many reggae musicians. But much slower tempo music with bass and rhythm guitar hammering more prominent. Vocals are heavy with songs like pattern praises (chant), which influenced tetabuhan rhythm, singing and mystical ways of Rastafari. The slower tempo of the music, in time to support the delivery of messages through the lyrics of songs associated with the Rastafari religious traditions and socio-political problems of humanistic and universal.
The album "Catch A Fire" (1972), which was launched Bob Marley and The Wailers quickly catapulted to the reggae outside Jamaica. Popularity of reggae in the United States is supported also by the film The Harder They Come (1973) and reggae rhythms played by white musicians such as Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and UB40. Reggae rhythms may then affect streams music in the decade after that, call it a variant of reggae hip hop, reggae rock, reggae blues,etc.
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