Bob Marley's recordings, some twenty years after his death, still
enjoy enormous international popularity. For popular music fans in
most of the world, reggae looms so large as to be Jamaica's only
music and Marley its consummate musician. In this book, Jamaicans
Kevin Chang and Wayne Chen offer a history of reggae, accounting
for its rise and devolution. Jamaican music can be roughly divided
into four eras, each with a distinctive beat - ska, rocksteady,
reggae, and dancehall. Ska dates from about 1960 to mid-1966 and
rocksteady from 1966 to 1968, while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was
the popular beat. The reggae era had two phases, \u0022early
reggae\u0022 up to 1974 and \u0022roots reggae\u0022 up to 1983.
Since 1983 dancehall has been the prevalent the prevalent sound.
The authors describe each stage in the development of the music,
identifying the most popular songs and artists, highlighting the
significant social, political, and economic issues as they affected
the music scene. While they write from a Jamaican perspective, the
intended audience is \u0022any person, local or foreign, interested
in an intelligent discussion of reggae music and Jamaica.\u0022
Featuring some four hundred illustrations that range from album
covers to rare photos, Reggae Routes profiles the innumerable
artists, producers, and recordings that secured an international
audience for Jamaican music. Artists discussed: Toots and the
Maytals, the Wailers, Gaylads, Desmond Dekker, Delroy Wilson, Alton
Ellis, Burning Spear, Itals, Wailing Souls, Skatalites, Heptones,
and hundreds more.
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