The Jamaican Music Culture Video
As the year 2012 comes to a end, so does Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary celebration. The country has been celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout Jamaica and around the world. Over the past 50 years, Jamaican Music Culture has managed to build itself into an incredible brand. Jamaican music culture video which describes Jamaican music as Jamaica’s biggest export.
Reggae music is accepted worldwide. As a result, folks from all over come to visit the Island.
Alton Ellis sings live
UKs Selector Robbo Ranx
When it comes to the Jamaican musical culture, sports and beaches, the love for the island in the sun, Jamaica, keeps on growing. As a result, UKs dancehall selector DJ Robbo Ranx (Roger Robinson) and BBC Radio went to Jamaica’s iconic recording studio of Bob Marley, Tuff Gong Studio to do a video on Jamaican cultural music.
Robbo Ranx invited some of Jamaica’s mega stars and future stars to participate in the making of the Jamaican Music Cultural reggae music video in celebrating Jamaican music over the past 50 years.
History Of Reggae
Reggae finds its roots in Jamaican folk music. Called “mento,” many find it sounds very similar to the hillbilly folk music found in the rural U.S. The use of similar instruments gives it that similar sound. Mento uses acoustic guitars, banjos, drums made out of anything — much like American folk music. However, mento definitely carries island rhythms (some of which it may have picked up from calypso).
Influenced by modern R&B and jazz in the 1950s, young musicians developed ska, an island-flavored dance music. Soon, a genre called “rocksteady” emerged, with a slower beat and more romantic lyrics. It was the romantic power ballad of ska, meant for close dancing and courting. Soon after Independence from Britain in 1962, entered the era of Reggae.
