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Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.
Reggae is based on a rhythmic style characterized by accents on the off-beat, known as the skank. Reggae is normally slower than both ska and rocksteady.[1] Reggae usually accents the second and fourth beat in each bar, with the rhythm guitar also either emphasizing the third beat or holding the chord on the second beat until the fourth is played. It is mainly this "third beat", its speed and the use of complex bass lines that differentiated reggae from rocksteady, although later styles incorporated these innovations separately.
The 1967 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists reggae as "a recently estab. sp. for rege", as in rege-rege, a word that can mean either "rags, ragged clothing" or "a quarrel, a row".[2]Reggae as a musical term first appeared in print with the 1968 rocksteady hit "Do the Reggay" by The Maytals, but it was already being used in Kingston, Jamaica as the name of a slower dance and style of rocksteady.[3]Reggae artist Derrick Morgan stated:
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Ms. Dahlia Brown, Manager, St. Mary BranchThe St. Mary Branch Office of the Diabetes Association of Jamaica after years of nomadic existence and many periods of closure has finally found a home. The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany gave the branch approximately J$1.3 million to put a containerized office on land leased from the St. Mary Parish Council in Trinity St. Mary. The offices of The Food for the Poor and The Lions Club of Kingston and St. Andrew also made contributions to this venture. 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
REGGAE FESTIVAL GUIDE ONLINE.In 1994 the Reggae Business Association was started to create a proactive Reggae industry networking association. Coincidentally, Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide (R.A.W.) organization (now defunct) started doing the same thing at the same time but on a much larger level, so RBA turned over their membership list to R.A.W., became R.A.W. members (#111) and the Reggae Business Association became a company that specialized in promotions, publicity and marketing..

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