Globalization and Everyday Life:Reggae Music

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Music in Everyday Life

• Some stylistic influences that shape it.• Each musical style represents an unique way

of combining rhythm,melody,harmony and lyrics

For Sociologists:

• Different musical styles tend to emerge from different social groups.

• Reggae music exemplifies the process whereby contacts between social groups result in the creation of new musical forms.

History of Reggae Music

• Reggaes roots can be traced to West Africa.

In the 17th Century large numbers of West Africans were enslaved.

History of Reggae Music

The British attempted to prevent slaves from playing traditional African music.

The Burru

In Jamaica,the drumming of one group of slaves,the Burru,was openly tolerated by slaveholders.

The Burru

Slavey was finally abolished in Jamaica in 1834,but the tradition of Burru drumming continiued even as many Burru men migrated from rural areas to the slums of Kingston.

Development of Reggae Music

• A new religious cult was begun to emerge by slums.

• In 1930 a man Haile • Selassie was

crowned• emperor of the

African country of • Ethiopia.

The Rastafarians

• Many people, all over the world cheered Selassie’s ascension to the throne.

• In the West India, people who worshipped Selassie, called themselves ‘Rastafarians’.

Existing OF New Type OF Music

• Rastafarian music came to combine Burru styles of drumming.

• In the 1950s, ‘ska’ music born by mixing Rastafrian music, with American jazz, black rythm and blues.

• In the late 1960s, stories of urban deprivation and power of collective social consciousness, existed the reggae music.

Existing of New Type of Music• In 1970s, people all over the

world were listening the reggae, and many reggae artist, like Bob Marley, became very famous.

• In 1980s and 1990s reggeae was fused with hip-hop or rap, and there are some new groups like The Wu-Tang Clan, Shaggy or Sean Paul.

Effect of GlobalIzatIon

• Finally we can see many situations like reggae music because of globalization.

• For example Arabic music is effect Turkish traditional music and arabesk music born.

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