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Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music

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About Reggae Routes: The Story Of Jamaican Music

Product Description Bob Marley's recordings, some twenty years after his death, still enjoy enormous international popularity. For popular music fans in most of the world, reggae looms so large as to be Jamaica's only music and Marley its consummate musician. In this book, Jamaicans Kevin Chang and Wayne Chen, offer a history of reggae, accounting for its rise and devolution.Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras, each with a distinctive beat-ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dancehall. Ska dates from about 1960 to mid-1966 and rocksteady from 1966 to 1968, while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat. The reggae era had two phases, early reggae up to 1974 and roots reggae up to 1983. Since 1983 dancehall has been the prevalent sound.The authors describe each stage in the development of the music, identifying the most popular songs and artists, highlighting the significant social, political, and economic issues as they affected the musical scene. While they write from a Jamaican perspective, the intended audience is any person, local or foreign, interested in an intelligent discussion of reggae music and Jamaica. Featuring some four hundred illustrations that range from album covers and posters to rare photos, Reggae Routes profiles the innumerable artists, producers, and recordings that secured an international audience for Jamaican music. Review "...the new bible of Jamaican music." -- Jamaica Sunday Gleaner, Mar 8, 1998 "Insightful...Enthralls from start to finish...Accurate." -- Jamaica Sunday Observer, Jan 11, 1998 "It is alive...the reader experiences the history in-depth. -- Jamaica Sunday Gleaner, Feb 22, 1998 From the Publisher Reggae's pulsating rhythms and appeals for social justice have galvanized music audiences all over the world From the Author This book is above all a labour of love. We 'born and grow' with reggae and the men and women who sang and played and produced it have given us countless moments of joy. In a way this is our small token of thanks for the real happiness they brought into our lives. About the Author Kevin O'Brien Chang holds an MBA from the University of Toronto. He lives and operates a business in rural Jamaica. An occasional freelance writer, he has contributed to the Toronto Star, the Jamaica Gleaner, and the Jamaica Observer. His music interest ranges from reggae to the opera. Wayne Chen holds a degree in law from the University of the West Indies. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica's largest supermarket chain. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From the Introduction: The name has changed over the years (mento, ska, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, ragga) but the tradition in which the music is created has not. Reggae was never designed to suit a specific formula or espouse a given political view. Nor was it thrust upon the masses by slick corporate hype or central planning committees. Reggae has grown directly out of the experiences of the Jamaican people and all discussions must begin there.