Non-Jamaican Reggae

By Andy Beta, eMusic Contributor

Since the days of Duke Reid and Sir Coxsonne Dodd's clashing sound systems, the music emanating from the tiny island of Jamaica has been a rhythm-led, bass-grounded, sonically singular affair, evolving from ska and rocksteady (itself a slower drawl of the former) in the late '60s into reggae and dub at the turn of the decade. Where reggae drastically differed from its genre predecessors was in its lyrical concerns, mostly detailing the dogma of Rastafarianism,… more »