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2. Reggae - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Reggae genres - Wikipedia

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   Roots reggae usually refers to the most recognizable kind of reggae, popularized internationally by artists like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, which dominated Jamaican recordings from around 1972 into the early 1980s. While there are distinct musical characteristics to this era of reggae music, the term "roots" often implies more the message of ...

4. The Lazy Song - Wikipedia

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   "The Lazy Song" is a reggae, reggae-pop and ska track, [5] [6] [7] borrowing "heavily from roots reggae". [8] According to the digital sheet music published by Alfred Music Publishing, the song was written in the key of B major and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 88 beats per minute. [9] "The Lazy Song" instrumentation ...

5. List of Caribbean music genres - Wikipedia

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   Cariso is a kind of Trinidadian folk music, and an important ancestor of calypso music. It is lyrically topical, and frequently sarcastic or mocking in the picong tradition, and is sung primarily in French creole by singers called chantwells. Cariso may come from carieto, a Carib word meaning joyous song, and can also be used synonymously with ...

6. Bam Bam (Sister Nancy song) - Wikipedia

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   The song has been labeled as a "well-known reggae anthem" by BBC and a "classic" by The Observer. [3] [4] In 2016, Billboard called the song "a strong contender for the title of most sampled reggae song of all time." [1] When asked her opinion of the many songs that have used her voice over the years, she responded: "I don’t know if I hear ...

7. Rebelution (band) - Wikipedia

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   Two years after their first album, Rebelution released their second full-length album, Bright Side of Life on August 4, 2009. Bright Side of Life was officially released and dominated the iTunes charts, reaching the #1 spot on iTunes in the Reggae music genre, and the #3 spot for Top Albums Downloaded in the United States in all genres of music.

8. Common Kings - Wikipedia

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   Common Kings was one of the many featured reggae rock artists on Crossed Heart Clothing presents Pop Punk Goes Reggae, Vol. 1, which was produced by frontman Nathan Aurora of Iya Terra. The 16-track album was released on September 15, 2023 by Ineffable Records. [8] The band covered "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic! At The Disco.

9. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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   In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52–81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd. Frith, Simon (1996) Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Holt, Fabian (2007) Genre in Popular Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.