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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 ...
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 ...
Mento is a style of Jamaican folk music that predates and has greatly influenced ska and reggae music. [2] It is a fusion of African rhythmic elements and European elements, which reached peak popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. [3] Mento typically features acoustic instruments, such as acoustic guitar, banjo, hand drums, and the rhumba box ...
Reggae (/ ˈ r ɛ ɡ eɪ /) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during 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 audience.
Mento (also known as Jamaican calypso [37]) is a type of afro-Caribbean folk music that originated in Jamaica. [38] This genre was a precursor of other afro-Caribbean sub-genres such as ska and reggae. [39] Mento incorporates African rhythmic elements, such as the drums, with European elements, such as the guitar and the use of melodies.
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.
Harry Belafonte, Almanac, 18 February 1954. "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song. The song has mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music. It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships.
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. [4][5] Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. [6][7] In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably, with digital dancehall (or "ragga ...