🗊Презентация Reggae

Reggae

Name The origin of "reggae" explained the term in different ways. According to one version it is associated with the English phrase "reggid rhythm" (English ragged rhythm -. Ragged, istrёpanny rhythm), on the other - with the slang name of street women in Kingston (the capital of Jamaica) - "streggey» (streggae). Referred to as "reggae» (regga) - Negro tribe in Tanganyika, speaking in the language of the Bantu. Musically common parlance the word "reggae" first appeared in 1968 in connection with the group "the Maytals", a disc which is called - «Do the Reggae».

Origin In the first half of XX century. the most common genre of music in Jamaica was mento (mento). These were the songs sung by roving musicians, is an alloy of religious hymns, spirituals, work songs, the style of calypso and the diversity of the Caribbean traditions. Mento was folk music, similar to the American country blues. After World War II, the island has penetrated a lot of new music, mainly from the United States. This was due mainly to the fact that the weight includes the use of radio receivers and, more rarely, players. Jamaicans were especially close to recording artists in the style of rhythm and blues - Bo Diddley (Bo Didley), Fats Domino, Louis Jordan (Louis Jordan), James Brown, and then rock and roll (rock-n-roll) - Chuck Berry, Little Richard (Little Richard), and others.

Rastafari Reggae in most cases associated with Rastafarianism, a religious movement that has spread in the XX century in Jamaica, and a peculiar mixture of Christianity, Judaism, and, importantly, with certain racial bias. In characteristic manner of new African-American religious movements in a variety of appearing in the first half of the XX century, Rastafarianism insists that Jesus Christ and all the biblical characters were black, the chosen Jewish people - it is also the black race and the Promised Land - is Ethiopia. Under Babylon, which are forced to remain captivated Rastafarians (and from which the expected outcome), means the whole Western world, enslaved by the capitalist system. Representative Jah God (Jah - short for Jehovah) in the world was considered an Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, before the accession to the throne in 1930. Named Ras Teferi Mekonnyn (ie Prince Teferi Mekonnyn) - hence the term "Rastafarianism".

Thank you for attention!