All about Reggae Music

Reggae Music

Index:

1. Introduction.

2. Etymology.
3. Reggae and Rastafarian Movement.
4. What the Reggae wants to show.
5. Marijuana and Rasta - reggae.
6. Dread Locks (Rasta Hairdo).

7. Singers of reggae famous.

1. The reggae is a musical kind that developed in Jamaica in the middle of the 90s. This one musical style arose as development of previous musical kinds as the Ska and the Rocksteady.




Let's know a bit more to near the origin of this musical kind

2. Etymology:

The Englishman's dictionary Jamaiquino, was including in his edition of 1977, the expression "reggae" equivalent to rege-rege, with the meaning "rag, " ragged clothes ", or " it fights, quarrel ".
Some historians say that the term reggae comes from the word ragga, abbreviation of raggamuffin that in English is translated like "ragged", Which nowadays are names assigned to styles derived from the reggae music.
This term was used to refer to the original persons of Jamaica who had low economic resources. Many persons also were using it to refer to the cultural movements of the poor neighborhoods. Wrongly, this one associates musical kind with the Rastafarian movement due to the fact that many elements of this movement were adopted to his music by musicians of the 70s and 80s.

3. Now, we will know a bit more on the relation between the Reggae and the Rastafarian Movement.

The reggae has never formed a part of the ceremonial order of the church Rastafarian, and his priests are very clear when the Reggae and the musical Rastafarian differ.
The truth is that the Reggae is a part of the Jamaican culture, and that the culture Rastafarian is an African culture that is accompanied originally of a style of music known as Nyahbinghi.



4. What wants to show the reggae

The Reggae, frequently it forms topics of social type, to others of political and religious. The first song known with this style, assumes to Derrick Morgan cpn his title " Do the reggay "There exist bands of all the races, cultures and countries. Nevertheless, many persons reject this style due to the fact that some of his letters influence and promote the consumption of drugs as the marijuana. Many of the letters of the reggae contain topics of love, peace, sexuality and up to rebelliousness, as which it has had great impact in the juvenile company due to his showy expression.
On the other hand, these letters focus in topics of social injustice that does part of the whole world, and for this reason, many persons listen to this style, because they search reflections that take them to a change. Actually, not all the followers of the Reggae consume drugs, and not all the authors consume them. In general, the common one is to listen To Reggae due to the fact that his pace is relaxing and showy, some do it for mode, others for taste, others for culture.



5. Why Rastafari use drugs?

Rastafarian (belonging to the Rastafarian movement), they believe that to smoke Cannabis (acquaintance as ganja or the sacred grass) serves as direct channel with Jah and to be a help to the meditation and to the access to the real wisdom that is granted by Jah Guide, that is to say, if they smoke, it will be to ponder and this way in a deeper way, to know; they do not do it ever to obtain superficial but interior pleasure.

The Rastafari, they justify themselves in some verses of the Bible, though actually the context of the verses does not mean what for many is the permission to consuming drugs.
Some of the above mentioned verses, they are: Exodus 10:12, that speaks on eating the grass of the land, but if we read the complete verse one says to an order that God gives him Moses on the animals, in demonstration of the power of God opposite to the bowling pin of a king on the faith. Another verse is Genesis 3:18, that also speaks about the grass of the field, but in this case, reading the whole verse and the context in the one that was written, treats himself about the consequence of the sin of Adam and Eve, refering to that they should be employed at the land and that the grass would be his food, already they might not enjoy everything what existed in the paradise, but it does not refer to the drug.
This idea of " sacred grass " possibly would have origin in former traditions of ancient civilizations, where it was estimated not only by his narcotic properties. Cannabis's diverse varieties were in use also for his multiple and versatile technical and cultural applications (textile, paper, medicines, supply, etc.), and they were considered to be a " sacred plant " in diverse cultures.
To Rastafarian and Reggae always they one has linked with the consumption of marijuana, though they do not consider it to be a drug but as an element that affects the body, the soul and the mind, and they use her in his ceremonies and in his social life.

6. Dread Locks (Rasta Hairdo)

The dreadlocks are the hair of a Rasta, the form in which it takes it tangled forming pipes, in the Spanish-speaking countries one confuses them being calling them Rastas. There is not known by certainty when the dreadlocks were born though they are very used in Africa, for Rastafarian, and in the India for the Sadhus (sacred Men). The dreadlocks, also they are justified by the Bible, using the following verses: Levítico 21:5 that speaks of not cutting the head, but when the complete chapter is read, there is understood that this one was a God's norm only to the priests in the context of ancient time, for which nowadays sense logical does not make use dreadlocks since it is not a God's order to all the men.
The dreadlocks were announced by Bob Marley, one of the most famous artists of reggae, the one who was calling the antención and was causing intrigue due to his quantity of hair related to his musical letters.



7. Singers of reggae famous

Some of the singers of Reggae more acquaintances are: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff, Steel Pulse, Bunny Wailer, Black Uhuru, Lucky Dube, Eddy Grant.