Reggae beyond Bob Marley

[loligo]

Consider this an early contribution for IBARW II. I have no idea what my schedule will be like that week: if I have time, I will upload each track individually and link to this during the festivities, and if I don't, I won't. I've thought about posting something like this for quite some time, but I don't think I ever got around to it... if I did

Comments

[hesychasm]

Awesome! Downloading the zip file. Thank you so much for sharing these -- because indeed, I do not know much about reggae beyond Bob Marley. :D

[katie_m]

Interestingly, I was just talking about reggae this afternoon, so here's a question for you: Was reggae born in the Caribbean? And if so, what was up with the documentary I just watched about Sierra Leonean refugees, who were playing something that sounded an awful lot like reggae? (Plus, at least one of them had the multi-colored non-beret hat.)

[loligo]

Yes, reggae was born in Jamaica, specifically. But apparently a concert that Bob Marley played in Zimbabwe in 1980 took the entire continent by storm, and ever since reggae has been a very popular genre there and there are a number of very successful African reggae artists, like Alpha Blondy.