(GEOGRAPHY) Reggae music, born in the poor neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, ow

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(GEOGRAPHY)

Reggae music, born in the poor neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, owes its essence to economic, religious, political and economic influences from such diverse locations as Ethiopia, west Africa, the southern United States, Detroit/Motown, the British Empire/England, and the republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The genre of music developed in response to very specific global conditions as they were interpreted within the local context of Kingston, Jamaica and then spread, was consumed/appreciated and at times modified (think Snoop Dogg/Snoop Lion) in, first the United States, and then on a global scale.

While its possible to just sit and enjoy listening to the likes of reggae artists Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, understanding the many influences that go into the music can provide insight into the processes of globalization.

Choose some phenomena, anything, in which you have an interest and do an internet search on the global forces that may have influenced the development of that thing you chose. Some elements might be straightforward (the rhythm of reggae music incorporates rhythms of American pop and Caribbean Calypso) while others may be less direct or obvious (Kingston, Jamaica was a poor slum populated by disillusioned youth, a condition created in a large part by the former colonization of Jamaica by the British).

SUBMIT:

Describe the phenomena in terms of your experience of it. How did you develop an interest in it? (example: I have been listening to reggae music since …….)

Discuss the global influences that have helped shaped that phenomena. (example: Reggae incorporates political, economic……..The political element comes from ………)

Discuss how those global influences might have been incorporated into or influenced by the local conditions of where you are experiencing it. (example: Jamaican reggae has been incorporated into American culture through the consumption of products such as……and also by its incorporation into American music by artists such as…..)

Include links to internet sites that you are using as references. List any non-net based sources in the citation format in which you are most comfortable.

Explanation / Answer

I developed interest towards Raggae music after listenings songs of Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and I liked so much that I went on listening as much song as I can and read about it very much. I liked its pace of guitar and piano off-beats, it adds very rich flavour to the song. Raggae lyrics are very motivational as it encourages to live life at is fullest.

Reggae music born in twentieth-century as a complex Afro-Jamaican musical phenomenon that has deeply influenced global popular musical culture. It started just as a cultural practice in Jamaican postcolonial society but soon became representations of slavery and colonialism in all over Africa and other America and other caribbean nation. This changed the history, in respect to the racial discrimination and freedom from colonalisation, of many countries. Raggae music have been changed and evolved by incorporation of new instruments and new artists in which it has gone for e.g. raggae have adapted and morphed the harmonic structures, instrumentation, and melodies of European musical styles into indigenous sounds. It also added other instruments, in particular rhumba and drums which produce a unique rhythm to which many rural Jamaicans enjoyed dancing.

Sources: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/reggae.aspx

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