JAMAICAN MUSIC

The music of Jamaica includes the music folcrrica Jamaican as well as multitude of kinds of popular music, since I mention, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall, reggae merger and other related styles. The musical Jamaican culture is the result of the merger of American elements (rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul), Africans and of Caribbean nearby islands as Trinidad and Tobago (calipso and soca). The reggae is specially popular thanks to the artists' international reputation as Bob Marley. The Jamaican music has exercised an important influence on other styles of different countries. Especially, the practice of the toasting for Jamaican immigrants in New York evolved up to turning into the origin of the rap. Other kinds that have received the Jamaican influence are the lovers rock, the punk and the jungle