Reggae

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title: Reggae
text: Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. Reggae is rooted out from traditional Jamaican Kumina, Pukkumina, Revival Zion, Nyabinghi, and burru drumming. Jamaican reggae music evolved out of the earlier genres mento, sk
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description: Music genre
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae
date created: 2001-05-13T20:45:34Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T06:35:21Z
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