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Reggae

//ˈɹɛɡeɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies. Rastafari, uncountable

    "Near-synonym: (earlier) bluebeat"

  2. 2
    popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar wordnet

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Compare ragtime. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 Maytals song “Do the Reggay”.

See also for "reggae"

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