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Reggae

Heartbeat of Jamaica and popularized by Bob Marley.

Web Address : http://rakista.com/clan/reggae
Date Created : 25 Feb 2008 08:10 pm
Category : Music
Type : public Public
Members : 250
Topics : 84
Posts : 1375
Profile Views : 4747

This is the official Clan for Reggae Music Lovers of Rakista.com.

Please join this clan if you love this music genre. You have to be a member of this clan to participate in the forums.


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Reggae
"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank. The tempo is generally slower than that found in ska. Reggae usually has accents on the 3rd beat in each bar, there being four beats in a bar; many people think it's accentuated on the 2nd and 4th, because of the rhythm guitar.

Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many prominent reggae musicians from its inception. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Bob_Marley_Live-Painting_by_Steve_Brogdon1992.jpg/400px-Bob_Marley_Live-Painting_by_Steve_Brogdon1992.jpg[/img]
Bob Marley Live a painting by Steve Brogdon 1992

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