Did reggae die with Marley, Tosh and Dube?

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The word ‘reggae’ was coined around 1960 in Jamaica to identify a ‘ragged’ style of dance music, which has its roots in New Orleans’ RnB music genre.

However, reggae soon acquired the lament-like style of chanting and emphasised the syncopated beat. It also made explicit, the relationship with the underworld of the ‘Rastafarians’, revived Marcus Garvey’s ideology of advocating for a mass emigration back to Africa, both in the lyrics and in the appropriation of the African nyah-bingi drumming style, a style that mimics the heartbeat with its pattern of ‘thump-thump, pause, thump-thump’.

The paradox of reggae is that this music ‘unique to Jamaica’ is actually not Jamaican at all, having its foundations in the USA and Africa.

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