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Cool Reggae Music (reinforced Hardcover) - By Karen Latchana Kenney

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...

Spurred on by one of the day's top singers, Alton Ellis, Charmers took up the piano in 1966. A few years later, he was an accomplished enough player to form a band of his own with a few friends. Also featuring Charmers on organ, the lineup included guitarist Alva "Reggie" Lewis and the sibling duo of drummer Carlton "Carlie" Barrett and bassist Aston "Family Man" Barrett. Dubbed the Hippy Boys, the group soon fell into the camp of fledgling producer Bunny "Striker" Lee. Their first date with Lee...

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Reggae legend Dennis Brown had a distinguished singing career that began when he was 11 years old and resulted in several international hits in the 1970s and '80s. His smooth, soulful delivery endeared him to a broad audience of both music listeners and musicians themselves, leading to studio and production work in addition to solo chart success. Although comfortable singing in the many different genres of reggae music, Brown is perhaps best remembered as a purveyor of the romantic, expressive style...

VP Records' long-running sampler series Reggae Gold has become somewhat of a barometer of the international contemporary reggae scene, and this 2007 entry has some pretty cool stuff, including Shaggy's "More Woman," which is spun over an intoxicating garbage-can rhythm, a pair of strong tracks by dancehall veterans Elephant Man ("Bring It") and Buju Banton ("Bobby Red"), and Morgan Heritage's poignant and memorable "Brooklyn and Jamaica." [A bonus DVD adds music videos, artist interviews, footage...

Strictly the Best Volume 04 - Various Artists - CD - CD - 54645118620

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Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, the Itals, the Ethiopians-they all dropped dazzling proverbs into their best known reggae tunes. "What come bad in the morning, can't come good in the evening." "They love to give you a basket to carry water." "The harder the battle be, ago sweeter the victory." In Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music Swami Anand Prahlad looks at the contexts and origins of these proverbs, using them as a cultural sheet music toward understanding the history of Jamaican culture...