El Reggae

El reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the mid-1960s. Although sometimes the term is used broadly to refer to different styles of Jamaican music, by reggae strictly means a specific musical genre that originated as earlier as development of other ska and rocksteady.
Reggae is characterized by a kind of rhythmic accentuation of off-beat, known as the skank. Normally,reggae time is slower than the ska and reggae usually accentuate rocksteady.1 The second and fourth beat of each bar, serving the guitar to put emphasis on either the third pulse or to keep the chord from the second through fourth. It is usually this "third beat", both for speed and for the use of complex bass lines that differentiates reggae rocksteady
precursors

Although strongly influenced bytraditional African music, American jazz and the first rhythm and blues, reggae is the direct debtor origin of the various developments that took place in the ska and rocksteady during the 1960s in Jamaica. One of the individuals that contributed to this development was Count Ossie.8 9
Ska arose in the studios of Jamaica around 1959. It developed from the ska carateriza mento.10 a bass line typecalled "walking bass" or "bass galloping", guitar or piano rhythms on the offbeat accents, and sometimes wind riffs similar to those of jazz. Besides being very popular within the subculture's Jamaican rude boys, by 1964 had also gained a large audience in English mod culture.
The rude boys began deliberately put ska records at half speed, preferring to dance slower as part of their image typesduros.11 the mid-1960s, many musicians had begun playing with that tempo ska slow, while that emphasized the walking bass and offbeats. The sound was named rocksteady slow following a single by Alton Ellis. This phase of Jamaican music lasted only until 1968, when musicians began to speed up the music again, adding also other efectos.12 This led to the creation of reggae.
HistoryReggae developedfrom rocksteady in 1960. The change from rocksteady to reggae is illustrated by the use of the organ shuffle, pioneered by Bunny Lee. This feature already appeared in some transitional singles such as "Say What You're Saying" (1967) by Clancy Eccles or "People Funny Boy" (1968) by Lee "Scratch" Perry. The track "Long Shot Bus' Me Bet" released by the group The Pioneers in 1967 is regarded as theearliest recorded example of the new sound that would soon be known as reggae.13
It is to early 1968 when the first genuine reggae records were released: "Nanny Goat" by Larry Marshall and "No More Heartaches" by The Beltones. The hit "Hold Me Tight" by American artist Johnny Nash, 1968 has been recognized as the first to put the reggae charts in the United States.14

Bob Marley.
The Wailers, aband formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963, are perhaps the best known group that made the transition through all three stages of the first Jamaican popular music: ska, rocksteady and reggae. Other reggae pioneers include Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker and Jackie Mittoo.
In the development that led to ska to rocksteady and later reggae was the contribution of several majorJamaican producers. Among the most important are Coxsone Dodd, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leslie Kong, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs and King Tubby. Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records in Jamaica in 1960, he moved to England in 1962, where he continued to promote Jamaican music. Allied with Trojan Records, founded by Lee in 1968 Gopthal. Trojan reggae artists albums released in the UK until 1974, when Sagabought the label.
In 1972, the film The Harder They Come, in which she starred Jimmy Cliff, generated considerable interest and popularity for reggae in the United States, and the version of Eric Clapton in 1974 the subject of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped bring reggae to mainstream.15 medidados By the 1970s, reggae was receiving a considerable space in the English radio, especially...