Roots Reggae

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Roots reggae is probably the best-known genre of Jamaican music. Thanks to artists such as Bob Marley and Burning Spear, it achieved genuine worldwide success. Through these artists and their carefully articulated political dissent, social commentaries and praises to Jah Rastafari, it has been accepted across the world as one of the most potent protest musics. Roots reggae grew up in Kingston’s slums in the early 1970s, as the ghetto dwellers ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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