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Reggae is a music unique to Jamiaca, but it ironically has its roots in New Orleans R&B. Reggae's direct forefather is ska, an uptempo, rhythmic variation based on the New Orleans R&B Jamaican musicians heard broadcast from the US on their transistor radios. Relying on skittering guitar and syncopated rhythms, ska was their interpretation of R&B and it was quite popular in the early '60s. However, during one very hot summer, it was too hot to either play or dance to ska, so the beat was slowed down and reggae was born. Since then, reggae has proven to be as versatile as the blues, as it lends itself to a number of interpretations, from the melodic rock steady of Alton Ellis and the rock and folk-influenced songwriting of Bob Marley to the trippy, near-psychedelic soundscapes of dub artists like Lee "Scratch" Perry. It has crossed into the mainstream through the bright, bouncy "reggae sunsplash" festivals and pop-oriented bands like UB40, but more adventurous reggae artists, such as Marley and Perry, have influenced countless reggae, folk, rock and dance artists. Their contributions resonate throughout popular music.

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Reggae Musicians Travel Indonesia (Tony Q Rastafara Mas)

in Jamaica if we know Bob Marley is in Indonesia we know Tony Q. Q Yes, Tony the legend of Indonesian Reggae Music. First era (late) Mas Imanez still play the songs ballads Mas Tony already playing reggae. Born with the name Tony Waluyo, Tony moved to Jakarta, working on the PT-Cakung Singapore, as part of quality control worker, a tin factory. Feeling depressed seeing attendance machine, he changed jobs in a company engaged in advertising design in Sunter. One time, he asked for permission on the boss to be allowed art lecture at the Institut Kesenian Jakarta. But the boss did not give permission, just give him a pile of work in printing, and finally Tony came out of a job.
Until then Tony anchored in the Market Surprised Block-M, a bohemian life with singing. He felt happy, free and convenient. "My parents were very concerned to hear stories of people that I ngamen ... And I am happy with the way of life like that. Many friends, eat-sleep-ngamen ... the days are free. Ngitung money at four in the morning in Hoya. Can money buy guitar strings or buy books and painting tools, "said Tony Q. which at that time learned a lot from street musicians, Antonio Beret and artist association Bulungan circumference. For him, anxiety is a natural parent, even encouraged him to perform better.
Q Tony's musical journey was honed by singing and then began performing in the cafes in the number of Block-M. In addition to the kitchen to keep ngebul, gets along well with all people, Tony S. said this became a learning media for him, for better musically. Q Tony now regularly appear on the BB's a bar on the number Menteng every Friday and Saturday nights. There often reggae bands such as Steven n 'Coconut Treez, Force Five fingers, Gangsta Rasta, and sometimes reggae band from Yogyakarta, Shaggy Dog also Jony Agung Balinese reggae musicians perform enliven the atmosphere.
Music Tony Q Rastafara very strong elements of traditional music of Indonesia such as Paris van Java lyrical and beralunan typical Sundanese songs Pasundan. Ngayogyakarta Java language, which is very typical to the music of Central Java. Beach Party later that blends music talempong Minang. Then there is the Son of Kampung Malay songs that incorporate rhythm. Q Tony believes that in fact his reggae comes from Jamaica can be air-acculturation with local culture and create Reggae Indonesia.

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His Story The Life and Legacy of Bob Marley

Bob Marley gave the world brilliant and evocative music; his work stretched across nearly two decades and yet still remains timeless and universal. Bob Marley & the Wailers worked their way into the very fabric of our lives.

"He's taken his place alongside James Brown and Sly Stone as a pervasive influence on r&b", says the American critic Timothy White, author of the acclaimed Bob Marley biography CATCH A FIRE: THE LIFE OF BOB MARLEY. "His music was pure rock, in the sense that it was a public expression of a private truth."


It is important to consider the roots of this legend: the first superstar from the Third World, Bob Marley was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of our time and his music could have been created from only one source: the street culture of Jamaica. The days of slavery are a recent folk memory on the island. They have permeated the very essence of Jamaica's culture, from the plantation of the mid-nineteenth century to the popular music of our own times. Although slavery was abolished in 1834, the Africans and their descendants developed their own culture with half-remembered African traditions mingled with the customs of the British. This hybrid culture, of course, had parallels with the emerging black society in America. Jamaica, however, remained a rural community which, without the industrialisation of its northern neighbour, was more closely rooted to its African legacy. By the start of the twentieth century that African heritage was given political expression by Marcus Garvey, a shrewd Jamaican preacher and entrepreneur who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The organisation advocated the creation of a new black state in Africa, free from white domination. As the first step in this dream, Garvey founded the Black Star Line, a steamship company which, in popular imagination at least, was to take the black population from America and the Caribbean back to their homeland of Africa.

A few years later, in 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia and took a new name, Haile Selassie, The Emperor claimed to be the 225th ruler in a line that stretched back to Menelik, the son of Solomon and Sheba. The Marcus Garvey followers in Jamaica, consulting their New Testaments for a sign, believed Haile Selassie was the black king whom Garvey had prophesied would deliver the Negro race. It was the start of a new religion called Rastafari. Fifteen years later, in Rhoden Hall to the north of Jamaica, Bob Marley was born. His mother was an eighteen-year-old black girl called Cedella Booker while his father was Captain Norval Marley, a 50-year-old white quartermaster attached to the British West Indian Regiment. The couple married in 1944 and Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945. Norval Marley's family, however, applied constant pressure and, although he provided financial support, the Captain seldom saw his son who grew up in the rural surroundings of St. Ann to the north of the island.

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The Term Reggae

Reggae is a music rhythm that developed in Jamaica. Reggae may be used in a wide sense to refer to the bulk of Jamaican music, including ska, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, and ragga. Perhaps the term is also located in discriminating style so closely derived from the late 1960s. Reggae standing under rhythm style characterized by mouth blow arrears soldiers, known as the "skank", played by rhythm guitar, and bass drum beater over three blows each measure, known as "all out". Characteristics, is hitting the slow introduction of reggae, ska and rocksteady.

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