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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.
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.
Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music. Temple University Press. Philadelphia. Jahn, Brian and Tom Weber. Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age. Da Capo Press. Kingston. ISBN 0-306-80853-6; Robertson, Alan, Joe Harriott: Fire in his Soul. London: Northway Books, 2003. ISBN 0-9537040-3-3; Staple, Neville. Original Rude Boy. 2009 ...
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The music drew upon the West African Kaiso and French/European influences, and arose as a means of communication among the enslaved Africans. Kaiso is still used today as a synonym for calypso in Trinidad and some other islands, often by traditionalists, and is also used as a cry of encouragement for a performer, similar to bravo or olé.
Dancehall – Jamaican pop music that abandons reggae's roots influences for a slicker, EDM-inspired production. Dangdut – melodic and heavily optimistic style of Indonesian pop. Danger music – any music that will, somehow, potentially harm either the performers or the audience, linked heavily to noise rock. Dansband – Swedish folk music.
Two-tone or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock [citation needed] and ska revival, [1] is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements of punk rock and new wave music. [1]