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  2. Music of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Reggae is especially popular through the fame of Bob Marley. Jamaican music's influence on music styles in other countries includes the practice of toasting, which was brought ...

  3. Reggae - Wikipedia

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    Reggae. Reggae (/ ˈrɛɡeɪ /) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. [1] A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global ...

  4. Reggae genres - Wikipedia

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    Reggae fusion. Reggae fusion is a mixture of reggae or dancehall with elements of other genres, such as hip hop, R&B, jazz, rock, drum and bass, punk or polka. [12] Although artists have been mixing reggae with other genres from as early as the early 1970s, it was not until the late 1990s when the term was coined.

  5. Ska - Wikipedia

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    Suedehead. traditional skinhead. Madness performing in 2005. Ska (/ skɑː /; Jamaican Creole: skia, [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [ 1 ] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.

  6. Bob Marley - Wikipedia

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    Musical artist. Robert Nesta Marley OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of the genre, he fused elements of reggae, ska and rocksteady and was renowned for his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. [2][3] Marley increased the visibility of Jamaican music ...

  7. List of Caribbean music genres - Wikipedia

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    The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Here provides a list of Jamaican/Jamaican influenced music genres, sub genres and derivative forms: Ska. Rocksteady.

  8. Category:Music of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Toasting (Jamaican music) Categories: English-language music. Greater Antillean music. Performing arts in Jamaica. Music by country. Caribbean music by country. Hidden categories: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.

  9. Jamaican folk music - Wikipedia

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    Among the best known Jamaican folk songs are "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)", "Jamaica Farewell" (Iron Bar), and "Linstead Market". The first two of these were popularized by Harry Belafonte. The third has come a long way since its appearance among Jekyll's 108 Jamaican folk songs. Not only has "Linstead Market" been arranged for solo voice and ...