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Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Origin And Spread Of Reggae New York

By George Brooks


Beyond any reasonable doubt, reggae is inspirational, great, and popular to many a people across all generations, hitherto. It is diverse and ultimately derivers rather rational messages, something that is not seen in many other music genres. This is one of the reasons that have made it remain relevant through the test of time. It began in Jamaica back in 1966, and has since then become a force to reckon with, musically-speaking. Reggae New York subsequently developed and dominated myriad masses and audiences, until today.

The spectacular spread of this music commenced since time immemorial, with the early bands dealing in such music back then, promoting an impeccable foundation. The artists began combining various musical styles with this music instrumentals, in order to attract a wider listening and following. For instance, the inclusion of Spanish vocals to the reggae versions made it receive appraisal in South American Caribbean Islands of Venezuela and Guyana, and consequently in South America at large.

One of the strategies that the early founders upheld is promoting diversity in the music. For example, they ensured inclusion and incorporation of other languages and instrumentals, as well as other themes from various parts of the globe. This is with the ultimate intention of popularizing the music across the national, racial and religious divides.

It is worth noting, in this regard, the expansion of such music in South America due to the fusion and merger of Spanish content in the music, to produce a particular type of music called reggae en Espanola. Because of the Spanish-dominated Guyana alongside Venezuela, the population loved the inclusivity of their language in a their music version.

In the United States of America, bands like Slightly Stoopid, Rebelution, and Soja among others, are regarded very influential and progressive bands, and are sometimes called Cali Reggae, or also Pacific Dub. The American reggae front or scene is basically heavily centered in Southern California, with huge following in New York City, Chicago, Washington D. C, Miami and also Honolulu.

For a multitude of decades now, Hawaiians have had considerable craving and love for Hawaiian reggae, and this has spread to the entire of America west coast. In recent years, also, Matisyahu has also had great impact to the citizenry, majorly because of the inclusion or merging of Jewish vocals and themes, with reggae.

The mushrooming of other vocal and highly influential music groups in United States also played a critical role in promoting the music in question. Commonly termed as Cali Reggae or alternatively Pacific Dub, the groups largely led to the acceptance and appreciation of the amazing music, across all states thereof. Major cities that the good music has incessant popularity include Miami, Washington D. C, Chicago and New York. This is endorsed by the fact that there are numerous night clubs that only play the beautiful music in the named cities, both on daily basis and others on monthly basis.

Through the influence enjoyed by these early reggae gods, this type of music intensely progressed and continued winning huge audiences, to date. They bagged numerous awards, and were also included in the prestigious Grammy Awards. Until today, the music is astonishingly loved and enjoyed by large masses of people all over.




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