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- See also changes related to Reggae, or pages that link to Reggae or to this page or whose text contains "Reggae".
Parent topics
- Jamaica [r]: Caribbean island nation that became independent in 1962; formerly part of the British Empire and built on the slave trade (population about 2.8 million). [e]
- Music [r]: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm, harmonies and melodies. [e]
Subtopics
- Bob Marley [r]: A highly influential musician, from Jamaica, and a prominent proponent of the Rastafarian religion, and probably the World's most famous musician in the Reggae genre, died tragically young, of cancer [e]
- Jay Douglas: A Toronto, Ontario based musician recognized as one of the most experienced practitioners of Reggae music [e]
- Ska [r]: Musical genre originating in Jamaica in the late 1950s combining Caribbean mento and calypso with jazz and rhythm and blues. [e]
- Syncopation [r]: A variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter. [e]
- Reggae Lane: A laneway in Toronto, Ontario's "little Jamaica", named to recognize that the neighbourhood has seen more Reggae recordings than anywhere outside of Jamaica [e]