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The Music Of Jamaican Music And Music In The Jamaican Culture

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Reggae is a large part of Jamaican culture and has expanded to be popular globally. It was made popular throughout the 1960s mainly by a group from Jamaica called the wailers. They spread the genre to numerous parts of the world and touring widely and eventually gaining a following. They had also covered American songs in their genre which helped made it get into the mainstream. One member of this group Bob Marley is known as a very important man in this genre and considered to have brought it into the mainstream entertainment.

Reggae was the end genre from many earlier Jamaican dance music’s. These fused together to make reggae in the end. Some of the earlier genres were Ska and rocksteady it also took a heavy influence from American genres of jazz and rhythm blues. The main features from these that made a song reggae are the skank on the offbeat played in the chord and by a guitar usually. Another feature is typically a bass melody or it can also be played by on organ. Vocals are another common item in reggae music, Bob Marley was the primary vocalist of his group. Reggae is typically a slower tempo at around 75, also it is almost always written in 4/4. Reggae has taken influence from different cultures as its popularity spread around the world for example in Spain the local reggae style would be slightly different to the regular reggae style from Jamaica.

The style of reggae has held itself through time, from when earlier version originated in Jamaica in the 1950s

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