(Roots) Reggae - the genre

The socio-cultural position of (Roots) Reggae is defined by the lost optimism of the Jamaican residents for a new and better government. This led to a slower type of rocksteady: which is a more cool, and slower form of Ska with an easy and powerfull bass. The words sunny, warm, Caribian and marihuana should make the ambiance clear. Musicmap tells me how reggae became popular oversea in 1972 and how the spiritual Rastafari movement claimed the music as their subculture. The term Roots Reggae would therefore refer to the strong reflected Rastafari point of views about religion, racism, ghetto life, African roots and the use of cannabis.

The musical parameters contain a bass guitar that has an one drop rhythm and at the background staccato ska characteristics with sound effects, turntables and sound systems with a sound and feeling that feels optimistic and peacefull. The electric bass is mostly used as a talking drum with a fixed rhythm with a contrasting flying cymbal as the ‘flying' reggae pattern.

Side fact
The song ‘Boom Bye Bye' from Buju Banton is about the shooting of a homosexual person. The statement is that he wrote it after the Jamaican case of an underage boy who was raped by a homosexual. This song was the reason for Peter Tatchel to create the Reggae Compassionate Act that pleads for the canceling of writing ‘murder music'.

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