Concept in Definition ABC

The reggae it's a gender musical originating from the island of Jamaica, inspired by two other predecessor genres: the ska and the rocksteady, and whose first appearance dates back to the end of the sixties of the last century.

Musical genre originating from the Island of Jamaica and born in the sixties

Meanwhile, the main characteristic that distinguishes this musical style is its parsimonious, repetitive and extremely simple rhythm.

Rhythm characteristics

Therefore it is that in rhythmic matters we speak of a accentuationoff-beat, because reggae accentuates both the second and the fourth beat of each measure, meanwhile, it is the guitar that is used to carry out the aforementioned accentuation of the third beat, or failing that, to keep the chord from the second to the fourth beat.

Bob Marley, the maximum reference of this genre

Although when one mentions reggae immediately the name and the music from Bob marley, undoubtedly one of his beloved sons and faithful exponents of him, it should be noted that he was actually a compatriot and colleague of his, known as

Count Ossie, who owes the origin of this fusion of ska and rocksteady popularly known as reggae.

Grouping The Wailers, a grouping made up of Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, it would be the one that in the year 1963 he would popularize the genre to unthinkable limits.

Robert Nesta Marley Booker, better known as Bob Marley, He is the world-wide interpreter and composer most identified with reggae, as we indicated, first through the group of The Wailers and then more with his own name.

Not woman no cry, I shot the sheriff, Jamming and Redemption song , are some of the most popular reggae songs and the most sung by reggae fans.

Marley was the most important but not the only one, there were also other performers and producers (Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid, King Tubby, Leslie Kong) who invested efforts and talent and turned reggae into a massive style.

Also, there was a movie in 1972, The Harder They Come, which deals with Jamaican criminals, who helped a lot when it came to the spread of reggae in the USA and not to mention the takeoff that he would achieve in 1974 when the musician Eric Clapton covered the Marley theme I shot the sheriff.

Meanwhile, in England, Rolling Stones they would do the same when they included rhythm among their songs.

The culture and symbols around reggae

But beyond the strictly musical we cannot avoid when approaching this popular musical genre is the association that it has with a movement spiritual born in Jamaica, the Rastafari, and that has Haile Selassie, the last monarch of Ethiopia, as its leader and considered as the reincarnation of God.

It is precisely the performers and followers of this genre that are popularly referred to as Rastafarians.

On the other hand, the reggae follower tends to looke with certain uses and traditions that as of today they have become symbols of this music that we could say is like a "religion" for many of its fans ...

Dreadlocks or dreadlocks are a hairstyle that consists of wearing tangled and woven hair, as worn by members of the Rastafarian movement.

Meanwhile, to protect this hairstyle, Rastafarians usually wear knitted caps with the colors of the Ethiopian flag, yellow, green and red.

And a paragraph apart he deserves the consumption of the marijuana drug at the behest of Rastafarian culture and the reggae scene.

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug that is obtained from the hemp plant and that acts directly on the Central Nervous System of who consumes it.

Its use, which is certainly worldwide, is associated with religion, recreation and therapeutics.

Meanwhile, among reggae followers, marijuana is a fundamental part of the musical spectacle since they actively include it in the recitals of this music.

Although it is closely associated with reggae, we cannot ignore that marijuana is very entrenched in the rock scene, of the concerts of this genre as well, and it is part of the enjoyment of those who attend they.

Like any drug, marijuana, it has harmful effects on health, although many try to minimize these effects compared to other drugs. harder drugs, they exist and are forceful, among which psychosis, depression and anxiety, paranoia, disorders of panic.

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