HMCS Vancouver Pre-Deployment Brief - May 2024 (Web Version).pptx
Reggae
1. REGGAE Reggae is an afro-Jamaican music twentieth-century music style. This type of music profoundly had drawn the whole world around. As a genre reggae started in the 1970’s as the black culture production. It emerged from Ska and Rock Steady during the postcolonial Jamaica. As a postcolonial music it was very close tied to slavery, colonialism history of Africa. Many times reggae became a counter hegemonic practice critiquing the formal Jamaican Creole nationalist project of political independence (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2008). Reggae continues to develop in the twenty-first century. One genre, roots reggae, popularized by the singer Luciano, distinguishes itself by its message of openness, its rebellious quality, its firm affirmation of Rastafari, and a central preoccupation with social and political issues. Other genres are dub and dance hall. In the 1970s many children of Jamaican immigrants to the United Kingdom, often called “black British,” deployed reggae as a cultural form not only of identity but of protest. Bands such as Steel Pulse and Aswad played a role in the black cultural politics of the United Kingdom. Reggae also started with the same form of a 12 bar blues and it has a 4/4 beat.