Susan D'Elia Speech 214: The Rhetoric of Reggae Music Spring 2002

Susan Deria Lecture 214: Rhetoric of reggae music Women's fashion of the Jamaican dance company in the spring of 2002 "Women need to use what they need to get what they want" - James Brown Actress Audrey · Audrey Lead is the role of Marcia in the Jamaican movie 'The Queen of the Ballroom'. Lead plays a single mother of stalls and two daughters trying to make her family live a better life. Poor Marcia had to rely on the sugar father "Rally" to feed the family and let her daughter go to school.

The word "reggae" comes from "rege-rege" meaning "clothes" or "clothes". This gives the first clue to the story behind reggae music. When it began in Jamaica in the late 1960s, reggae music was similar to what came out of New Orleans at that time, including other musical style magazines including Jamaican mento and contemporary Jamaican ska music, and American jazz It was considered rhythm and blues. . Until the band Toots and Maytals appeared, most listeners did not even distinguish reggae and Jamaica's ballroom dance, or slowly moving ska called rock steady. As a public attention, these songs claim that a new style of music is born and it is at the forefront of music

Reggae music is the result of mixed styles and different types of music, and is interrupted by Jamaican people. Reggae was truly created in the late 1960s as music genres include Ska, Rock, Hair, American Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, R & B in New Orleans, and Calypso. Ska and rock music are not only the foundation of reggae, it is the basis of other types. Ska music began in the late 1950s and is a pioneer of the stability of rock music. Ska Music

The Caribbean of the Caribbean contains range of genres including genre of Antigua and Barbuda music Benedict; Jamaican folk music style that greatly influenced ska and reggae Mento, Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae Pioneer, sponge, Barbados pop style, Dominica Cadence lipos who blended Calypso and Haitian rhythm, and the influence of Cadence / Calypso style, Cadence Lipso, Soul, Funk "calypso" was originally "kaiso" , Now it is thought to originate from Efik's "ka isu" ("continue!") And Ibibio "kaa iso" ("continue, continue"). It is a person. There is Trinidad terminology "Cariso" meaning "old days" Calypso. The word "calypso" was recorded from the 1930s.