MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Reggae

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Indian classical music is a unique and most favourite art form of Indian Culture that expresses emotion and feeling without using any words and this special quality of Music makes it a universal language which can be understood in across cultures. Unlike pure entertainment, it is deeply rooted in spirituality and devotion, which gives it a distinct identity worldwide. Over time, it has evolved in response to changin…

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style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content

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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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In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem.” In this …

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12 pages.