Reggae

Kostková Kristýna, Urbaník Adam

Basic information

- Music genre (Jamaica in the late 1960s)

- Reggae song lyrics: love, sexuality, peace,

relationships

- Rhythmic style with regular beats on the offbeat

- The Wailers, a band started by Bob Marley,Peter

Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963

- Other significant reggae musicians: Prince

Buster,Desmond Decker and Ken Boothe.

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 Public perception of reggae

• Reggae = music which brings peace to people

• Many stereotypes: smoke weed, they have
dreadlocks, Rastafarians

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Bob Marley
-Jamaican singer, song writer and musician

-6 February 1945/11 May 1981 (aged 36)

-Music was heavily influenced by the social

issues of his homeland

-Marley remains the most widely known and

revered performer of reggae music

-Songs: I shot the sheriff, No women, no cry,

Could you be loved

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• Is This Love – YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_mb6Kxnrpk