Contents. Pre-reggae styles Mento Reggae grew out of earlier musical styles such as, and. Mento is a Jamaican folk music based on traditions brought to Jamaica by West African slaves which blended with later influences such as the. Mento reached its peak of popularity in the 1950s with the success of acts such as, and, but is sometimes confused with, a similar style from.
Ska Ska began in the 1950s, coinciding with Jamaica's independence from Great Britain. By the 1950s, musicians began to absorb the influences and from the United States, resulting in the development of. It incorporates elements of mento and, as well as American Jazz and R&B, which were popular on Jamaican radio. The style is characterized chord chops on the offbeat, sometimes called 'upstrokes'. The tempo is usually upbeat and often features horns, usually trumpets, saxophones, and trombones, as well and pianos and keyboards, bass, and drums. In the early-to-mid 1960s, ska became the most popular form of music in Jamaica and set the stage for rocksteady and reggae.
Many of ska's popular acts such as, and, later beame associated with reggae. Rocksteady In 1966, many ska musicians began to favour slower rhythms and beats, and the form began to evolve into. A successor of and a precursor to, rocksteady was performed by Jamaican vocal harmony groups such as, and. Early reggae The 'early reggae' era can be traced as starting in roughly 1968. The influence of music from American record labels such as began to permeate the music style of studio musicians and the slowing in tempo that occurred with the development of rocksteady had allowed musicians more space to experiment with different rhythmic patterns. One of the developments which separated early reggae from was the 'bubble' organ pattern, a percussive style of playing that showcased the eighth-note subdivision within the groove.
The guitar 'skanks' on the second and fourth beat of the bar began to be replaced by a strumming pattern similar to and the so-called double chop that can be heard so audibly in the introduction of Bob Marley's ' was developed during this time. More emphasis was put on the groove of the music, and there was a growing trend of recording a 'version' on the B-side of a single.
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The mass popularity of instrumental music in the ska and rocksteady eras continued in reggae, producing some of the most memorable recordings of the early reggae era. Cover versions of, Stax and songs remained popular in early reggae, often helping Jamaican artists gain a foothold in foreign markets such as the UK. As a testament to its far reaching impact in other markets, this era and sound of reggae is sometimes referred to in retrospect as ' reggae' because of its popularity among the skinhead in the UK during the late 1960s and early 1970s. One Caribbean band based in London, The Pyramids, even released an entire album dedicated to the unruly English youth culture under the name which featured songs such as ' and 'Skinhead Girl'. Eventually the, often experimental, sounds of early reggae gave way to the more refined sound made popular by Bob Marley's most famous recordings. Indeed, this era seems fittingly capped off by the 1973 release of.
Notable artists from this era include, and. Roots reggae. Performing with his band in 1978. Roots reggae usually refers to the most recognizable kind of reggae, popularized internationally by artists like and, which dominated Jamaican recordings from around 1972 into the early 1980s.
While there are distinct musical characteristics to this era of reggae music, the term 'roots' often implies more the message of the music than specifically its musical style and is still often used today to refer either to a musical style/subgenre or to give context to an artists music that may, in fact, cover several subgenres of reggae. Roots reggae, in this descriptive sense, can be typified by lyrics grounded in the movement's ' message, equation of colonialism and slavery with the Biblical captivity in, and, of course, the belief in one living God, manifested as 's Emperor. Recurrent lyrical themes include and resistance to economic and racial oppression as well as more poetic meditations on spiritual or topical themes. Musically, the 'roots' sound and era have a number of distinct features. Drummers developed more complex kick drum patterns based around the 'one drop' of rocksteady and incorporated influences from funk and R&B.
The guitar, piano and keyboard patterns in the music were refined from the creative explorations of the early reggae era into the patterns most recognizable as reggae throughout the world. Simple chord progressions were often used to create a meditative feeling to compliment the lyrical content of the songs. This refining of rhythmic patterns and simplification of chord progressions brought the bass guitar entirely to the forefront, helping to make bass one of the most definitive features of reggae as a genre. Producer/engineers like, and (before he became a king) also played a large role in the development of the roots sound, with their heavy use of tape delay and reverb effects becoming one of the most recognizable features of the music.
The roots sound can be best identified in the Jamaican recordings of the late 1970s by artists such as, and. Main article: Dub is a genre of reggae that was pioneered in the early days by studio producers and. It involves extensive remixing of recorded material, and particular emphasis is placed on the drum and bass line. The techniques used resulted in an even more visceral feel described by King Tubby as sounding 'jus’ like a volcano in yuh head.' And were two of the early notable proponents of this music style, which continues today.
Rockers The term 'rockers' refers to a particular sound of roots reggae, pioneered in the mid-1970s by, and very popular in the late seventies. Rockers is best described as a somewhat more mechanical and aggressive style of playing reggae with a greater use of syncopated drum patterns. Lovers rock. Further information:, and Toasting is a style of talking over music, making heavy use of rhythmic phrasing and rhyme patterns, that was developed in the 1950s by Jamaican looking to add excitement to the mainly American R&B records they played in outdoor venues, called 'lawns', and dancehalls. This style was developed by pioneers, and who took the current style of introducing and speaking over records played by and developed it into a unique style. As ska moved to rocksteady, this style of vocals gained a wider audience among Jamaican listeners.
One of the earliest examples of this style is Sir Lord Comic's 1966 recording, 'The Great Wuga Wuga'. This style finally gained chart topping popularity in the late 1960s with such as and scoring numerous hits. This style of speaking over records may have had a great impact on a young Jamaican DJ named, who had emigrated to in the late 1960s where he began holding parties in the Bronx.
It was Kool Herc's parties and the scene that sprung up around them that is generally credited as birth of hip hop and rap. Mixing techniques developed later in have also influenced hip hop.
Dancehall. Main article: The dancehall genre was developed in the late 1970s by pioneers such as and. The style is characterized by a singing and rapping over and was originally developed in the sound system culture in the wake of the increased popularity of early pioneers like. The style of these early deejays was developed into a more continual rhythmic pattern of rapping that contained much more melody than the rapping style being developed in America around this time. It is important to note that the rhythmic patterns dancehall deejays developed in their rapping are based around the phrasing and speech patterns of. An important characteristic of dancehall was the role of the (and later operators) on the sound systems, who would routinely use the volume control on their mixers to remix the riddim around the vocalists rhythmic patterns.
Musicians took the rhythms created by this mixing technique and began incorporating them into the music they played and recorded, a style still often referred to today as the 'mix'. An early example of this in recording would be 's 1984 hit, '. (or raggamuffin) is usually used to refer to the type of dancehall music that emerged since the 1980s which is based almost entirely around these 'mix' rhythms and contains almost no elements of what is traditionally perceived as reggae. In recording, ragga instrumentation primarily consists of and drum machines. And sequencing is also often used in ragga production. A definitive example of 'ragga' might be 's 1998 hit, '. Dancehall is a style and genre that was developed primarily by urban youth in Jamaica, as such its lyrical content is based in the lives of the people who made it and often contains lyrical content considered by many Jamaicans to be overly sexual or violent.
In a word, dancehall might be described as 'raw' and it has often been maligned in a similar way to despite the fact that many 'conscious' artists continue to release dancehall music. 50 cent bulletproof mixtape download. In February 2009, dancehall with lyrical content 'deemed explicitly sexual and violent' was banned from the airwaves by the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica. Raggamuffin.
Main article: Raggamuffin, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a subgenre of reggae that is closely related to and. The term raggamuffin is an intentional misspelling of ragamuffin, and the term raggamuffin music describes the music of Jamaica's 'ghetto youths'.
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The instrumentation primarily consists of. Often serves a prominent role as well.
As ragga matured, an increasing number of dancehall artists began to appropriate stylistic elements of, while ragga music, in turn, influenced more and more hip hop artists. Ragga is now mainly used as a synonym for dancehall reggae or for describing dancehall with a chatting rather than deejaying or singing on top of the.
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