Regge

Reggae is a music genre that was first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960's. Although sometimes the term is used broadly to refer to different styles of Jamaican music, reggae is meant for strictly a specific musical genre that originated as a development of earlier ones such as ska and rocksteady. 
Reggae is characterized by a kind of rhythmic accentuation of off-beat, known as theskank. Normally, the time of reggae is slower than that of ska and reggae tends to accentuate rocksteady.1 The second and fourth beat of each bar, serving the guitar to put emphasis either on the third beat, or to keep the chord from the second through fourth. It is usually this "third beat" both the speed and the use of complex bass lines, what distinguishes reggae rocksteady. 
Contents [hide] 
1Etymology 
2 Precursors 
3 History 
4 Subgenres 
4.1 Early reggae 
4.2 Roots reggae 
Ska 4.3 
Dub 4.4 
4.5 Rockers 
Lovers Rock 4.6 
5 Derivatives 
5.1 Hip hop and rap 
Dancehall 5.2 
Reggae Fusion 5.3 
6 References 
7 External links 
[Edit] Etymology 

The 1977 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English included "reggae" as "a newly established expression for regeneration",equivalent to regen-rege, a word that could mean either "rags, ragged clothing" as "a fight or quarrel" .2 The term reggae music with a sense first appeared in the 1968 rocksteady hit "Do the Reggay" by The Maytals, but was used in Kingston, Jamaica, to name a slower form of dance and play rocksteady.3 artistDerrick Morgan reggae expressed in this regard: 
We did not like the name rock steady, so I trieddifferent versions of "Fat Man". He changed the rhythm, the body was used to surprise. A Bunny Lee, the producer, liked it. He created the sound with the organ and rhythm guitar. It sounded like 'reggae, reggae' and that name just took off. Bunny Lee started using the word (sic) and soon all the musicians were saying 'reggae, reggae, reggae' .4 
The reggae historian Steve Barrow Clancy Ecclesattributed to the alteration of the word patois streggae (loose woman), making reggae.5 However, as Toots Hibbert: 
There is a word we used to use in Jamaica called 'streggae'. If a girl goes and the kids watch it and say 'uncle, she is "streggae"' That means you do not dress well, you see Reggay (ragged).The girls say the same of a man too. This morning I and some friends were playing and I said,'OK man, do the Reggay'. It was just something that popped into my head. So we started to sing 'do the Reggay, do the Reggay' (do the Reggay, make the Reggay) and create a beat. People told me after we had given to the sound of the name. Before that people called it blue-beat and all sorts of names. He is now in the Guinness Book of Records.6 
Bob Marley is said to have attributed as the sourceof the word reggae a Castilian term to refer to the "music of the King" .7 
[Edit] Precursors 

Although strongly influenced by traditional African music, American jazz and the first rhythm and blues, reggae is a debtor direct origin of the various developments that took place in the ska and rocksteady during 1960 in Jamaica. One of the individuals who contributed most to this development wasOssie.8 Count 9 
Ska originated in Jamaica studies around 1959. It grew out of the ska carateriza mento.10 by a type of bass line called "walking bass" or "low galloping" rhythm guitar or piano accented on the offbeat, and sometimes wind riffs similar to thejazz. Besides being very popular within the subculture of Jamaican rude boys, by 1964 had also gained a large audience on British mod culture. The rude boys began to deliberately ska records at half speed, preferring to dance slower as part of their image types duros.11 the mid-1960's, many musicians had begun playing with the tempo ska slow, while putting emphasis on walking bass and offbeats. The sound was called rocksteady slower as a result of a single Alton Ellis. This phase of Jamaican music lasted only until 1968, when...