Words similar to reggae
Example sentences for: reggae
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Is the inclusion of reggae a worthy redress of a common rock-historical oversight, or is it a cursory attempt to include still another music that discerning white college-educated guys tend to have in their record collections?
Local clubs and stage shows reflect such Bermudian and Caribbean traditions as steelband music, calypso, goombay, reggae, and limbo dancing, among others.
Add the shrill vocals of former Sex Pistol John Lydon, and the result is Leftfield's hectoring "." Drench a track in shadowy atmosphere, and the result is the ominous soundscape of Tricky's "." Combine '50s "space" music, French pop balladeering, and Marxist catch phrases, and the result is such Stereolab confections as "." Transpose the cyclical rhythms of dance music (and work by minimalist composers like Steve Reich) to guitars, and the result is the hypnotic disorientation of My Bloody Valentine's "." Include reggae rhythms and quotations from Indian and Arabic music, and the result is the ethno-techno of Loop Guru tracks like "."
At the same time, punk arose in reaction to art-rock pomposity and singer/songwriter narcissism, and reintroduced political content, derived from both '60s rock and Jamaican-born reggae . By the end of the decade, punk and disco were tentatively crossbreeding.
Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."
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