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Reggae

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	Reggae	comment	Primary Stylistic Influences (Roots Reggae): Ska, Rocksteady Secondary Stylistic Influences (Roots Reggae): Soul, sometimes Blues, Jazz and Psychedelic Rock influences Primary Stylistic Influences (Dub): Roots Reggae Secondary Stylistic Influences (Dub): Psychedelic Rock, Electronic Music, Experimental Music Primary Stylistic Influences (Dancehall): Roots Reggae, Dub, R&B Secondary Stylistic Influences (Dancehall): Electronic Music, Hip-Hop Reggae is Jamaica's most famous genre, emerging in The '60s from Ska and Rocksteady. You probably know it because it was popularised outside Jamaica by Bob Marley. Despite that, he wasn't the first reggae musician, not even the first to have some level of international popularity. Reggae evolved out of Ska and rocksteady near the end of the 1960s. One of the first notable reggae songs was "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker, which became an international hit in 1969. At the start of the 1970s the first popular reggae artist to score hits outside of Jamaica was Jimmy Cliff, best known for "Wonderful World, Beautiful People", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Many Rivers To Cross" and "The Harder They Come", all made famous by Jamaica's first feature film The Harder They Come, in which Cliff himself played the starring role. The feature became a Cult Classic in Jamaica and in the midnight movie circuit in the USA, also thanks to its soundtrack which was bought even by people who never saw the movie in their entire life. In the wake of its popularity Bob Marley & The Wailers, who were already well known in the Caribbean at this point became the first reggae artists to record an entire album, Catch a Fire (1972) in the same conditions as a Western rock band. His next albums provided huge mainstream hit singles like "I Shot The Sherrif", "Get Up, Stand Up" (from Burnin'), "No Woman, No Cry" (from Natty Dread, but more popular in the live version found on Live! (1976)), "Roots, Rock Reggae" (Rastaman Vibration (1976), "Exodus", "Jammin'", "One Love" (Exodus (1977)), "Redemption Song", "Could You Be Loved?" (Uprising (1980)) and "Buffalo Soldier" (Confrontation (1981)), which further solidified his international superstardom. Marley made reggae so popular that countless Jamaican artists now got their own chance to record albums. By the end of the 1970s several new wave and punk bands and ska groups in Western countries started playing their own reggae music, including Madness, The Police, The Specials, The Clash, UB40, the tremendously popular Dutch band Doe Maar, among others. Reggae also had a big cultural impact in New Zealand, particularly after Bob Marley toured there in 1979, inspiring the formation of various bands including Herbs during the 1980s and more recently Fat Freddy's Drop, Katchafire, and The Black Seeds. Its main distinctive trait, asides from being played slower than Ska, is the use of the "one drop" rhythm, whereby the first beat of a bar is completely empty and the emphasis is on the third instead. To this you can add other traits, such as: harmonic simplicity, use of guitars purely as a rhythm instrument, mostly as "skank" (short, dampened, choppy sound) on the two and four beats, and occasional use of horns and other instruments.
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