Jamaican Reggae
Jamaican Reggae The country of Jamaica has so many different types of music and is such a diverse culture. Reggae music originated in Jamaica, reggae music ties back to the late 1940s, but this type of music became very popular in the 1960s. Reggae music consists of many different music elements all combined into one genre of music. It consists of rhythm and blues (R&B), jazz, mento, calypso, African, and Latin American music, and so many more. “Reggae scenes consist of two guitars, one for rhythm and one for lead—drums, congas, and keyboards, with a couple of vocalists.” Even though reggae music is like a little sub-genre of all the other different types of music combined, it is still its own type of music. For example, reggae music is classified as having a slower tempo, offbeats, melodic bass lines, etc. Background of Reggae Music The word “reggae” was invented around the 1960s, when this word was invented, it was to classify a “ragged” style of dance music. W...