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slow rhythm built to outrun an entire nation's worth of stress.
means A genre of Jamaican popular music marked by an offbeat rhythm, a heavy bass line, and a relaxed, swaying tempo.
from The word surfaced in Jamaica in the late 1960s, often credited to the 1968 song 'Do the Reggay' by Toots and the Maytals. Toots himself said it came from 'streggae,' Kingston slang for someone raggedy or unkempt — so the music of the rough-and-ready streets took its name from the streets. It may also be linked to 'rege-rege,' a Jamaican term for rags or a quarrel, but the precise root stays loose, fittingly enough for a sound that refuses to hurry.
- offbeat
- emphasis lands on the upstroke, not the downbeat
- birthplace
- born in Kingston, Jamaica, late 1960s
- unesco honor
- declared protected cultural heritage in 2018
- slow on purpose
- slowed from ska and rocksteady's faster tempos
- bob marley
- his greatest hits album never left charts
one love peace concert — 1978 kingston concert where bob marley unified rival gang leaders on stage
burning spear — jamaican reggae band formed 1973, won grammy for 'socially conscious' and politically revolutionary lyrics