I love reggae because it is something that I carry in my blood since I was a kid. Growing up as kid listen to Bob Marley and Lucky Dube. Listen to those two legendary reggae artist help me understand what is going on around the world such we humans are dangerous to our own selves, and how politicians use their power to take advantage on people especially the poor ones which totally change my view on how I used to see the world. That is why I think unlike R&B and Hip Hop, reggae is the type of music that everyone should be listen to because is not about the unimportant things such drugs, money, and women. It more about life stories, current events, or something that a person is feeling and trying to share it with the world. That is why when it comes to reggae and Haitian food, I would say they are my two subcultures. Although they affect me in different ways, they make me the person that I’m…
Reggae is most easily recognized by the rhythmic accents on the off-beat, usually played by guitar or piano (or both), known as the skank. This pattern accents the second and fourth beat in each bar (or the ands of each beat depending on how the music is counted) and combines with the drums emphasis on beat three to create a unique feel and sense of phrasing in contrast to most other popular genres focus on beat one, the "downbeat"…
Many people throughout history have affected and influenced different styles of music in many ways. To give some examples, The Beatles, Queen and The Rolling Stones (to name a few of the many huge rock and roll bands) affected rock and roll greatly. Along the same lines we have Louis Armstrong and jazz and B.B King or Bessie Smith influencing Blues. For reggae, it is a name that, just like all the ones mentioned above, you have definitely heard of before. On February 6, 1945, in small town of Jamaica, Bob Marley was born. This Jamaican singer introduced the power of reggae to the world. He also remains one of its most beloved artists to this day.…
White, Timothy. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. New York: St Martin 's Griffin, 2000. Print.…
* Reggaeton has an irrepressible blend of tropical Latin and reggae rhythms. Today many of the most popular reggaeton artists come from Puerto Rico, but you couldn’t keep this music from sailing out to the rest of the world.…
During this study of research I will review literature regarding the relationship between Reggae and…
Reggaeton was a form of latin music or a spanish form of hip hop, Reggaeton was a mixture of Jamaican beats (dumbo) with spanish rap.…
The purpose for me doing this report on Bob Marley is to let people know who Bob Marley was, how his music influenced the world, and how his life changed throughout the years. Bob Marley influenced the world in many ways, and I want people to know how he did.…
Born on February 6,`1945 in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. Bob Marley helped introduce reggae music to the world and remains one of the genre's most beloved artists to this day. The son of a black teenage mother and much older, later absent white father, he spent his early years in St. Ann Parish, in the rural village known as Nine Miles. Marley lived in Trench Town, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. He struggled in poverty, but he found inspiration in the music around him. Trench Town had a number of successful local performers and was considered the Motown of Jamaica.A local record producer, Leslie Kong, liked Marley's vocals and had him record a few singles, the first of which was "Judge Not," released in 1962. While he did not fare well…
From a broad perspective, the primary reason, as to why McBride gives that question its own paragraph, is that he strives to underscore the momentous implications of the posed rhetorical question. Delving deeper into the specifics, he essentially exhorts the audience to capture the essence of the vast role that hip hop has played, throughout the course of history, in coalescing the African American community. Evidence from the text that further bolsters this claim is shown when the author states, “Today, 2 percent of the Earth's adult population owns more than 50 percent of its household wealth, and indigenous cultures are swallowed with the rapidity of a teenager gobbling a bag of potato chips. The music is calling. Over the years, the instruments…
I chose Bob Marley because not only does he inspire millions of people, he also inspires me to live happily. Every song has a different history behind that it always kept my attention, since the major theme of the music that he wrote it referred to the political and religious beliefs. At a struggling childhood he still seemed to be famous and make an impact on people’s lives and selling millions of records. He’s the most prominent international spokesperson for Rastafarianism through his musical fame. He was always trying to promote peace and cultural understanding with Jamaica. Marley’s music remains widely acclaimed, he is a legendary musician that nobody will ever…
2. “Aces and Eighths,a resource for musicians and music lovers”, accessed March 6, 2013, http://www.acesandeighths.com/reggae.html.…
All teenagers know that their parents publicly show their hate for the hip-hop industry, and every single spin off of its culture reflected in society these days. However, it is not specifically any type of society that these "atrocious customs" are depicted in, it lies at the very heart of my generation, the technologically inclined so to say. However, is there any basis to the "gray-haired persons," hate of our music, the kind that we hear being played all over the entire school?…
Mankind, a species that have been here a mere 200,00 years, evolving, learning and developing the world around them to suit their every single “need” in transportation, communication and even entertainment. So ask yourself, if we were able to innovate millions of new ideas that service our every need why does something as barbaric as racism and discrimination still exist in our “advanced” society? Why haven’t our societies ideals developed as much as us? Why are ideals that existed hundreds of years ago still prevalent in our time? As we have seen time and time again people such as Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, Nelson Mandella and William Shakespeare have intended to send the message of race equality through each of their methods whether…
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American major party candidate for president. She was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination and participated in the Democratic primaries in numerous states. She campaigned in 12 states and won 28 delegates.…