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Roots reggae was increasingly popular with the UK's black working-class youth from the 1970s onwards, its message of Rastafari and overcoming injustice striking a chord with those on the receiving end of racism and poverty. Jamaicans who had settled in the UK (and their children who had been born here) were instrumental in setting up a network ...
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Reggae (/ ˈ r ɛ ɡ eɪ /) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. [1] A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.
Trojan was instrumental in introducing reggae to a global audience and, by 1970, had secured a series of major UK chart hits. Successful Trojan artists from this period include Judge Dread , Tony Tribe , Lee "Scratch" Perry 's Upsetters, Bob and Marcia , Desmond Dekker , Jimmy Cliff , the Harry J All Stars, The Maytals , The Melodians , Nicky ...
June 1977: Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and guitarist Bob Marley (1945 – 1981) in London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) – Credit: Photo Evening Standard / Getty Images
Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid-1970s.
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Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae had been introduced to the United Kingdom in the 1960s, largely due to the Windrush immigration of the 60's and 50's, and the genres became especially popular with Mods, skinheads and suedeheads. [45] The 1970s saw the first major flowering of British reggae with bands such as The Cimarons, Aswad and Matumbi.