If you want to find out about what this site really is
about, you can read about it on the following pages.
On the following pages you find information about the different music
styles featured on this site.
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Calypso
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in the British and French colonial islands of the Caribbean at about the start of the 20th century. |
Dancehall
Dancehall is a type of Jamaican reggae which developed around 1979. The style is characterized by a DJ singing and rapping or toasting over raw and danceable reggae music. |
Dub
Dub is a form of Jamaican music, which developed in the early 1970s. |
Lovers rock
Lovers Rock is Britain's main contribution to reggae, it derived from reggae by the slowing down of the reggae beat.
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Raggamuffin
Raggamuffin (or ragga) is a kind of reggae that includes digitized backing instrumentation. |
Reggae
Reggae is an African Caribbean style of music developed on the island of Jamaica. |
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a Spanish language genre of Dancehall with distinct Hip hop and Pop Music influences, originating in Panama. |
Rockers reggae
Rockers Reggae is a sub-genre of Reggae music popular in the mid to late 1970s. |
Rocksteady
Rocksteady is the name given to a style of music popular in Jamaica between 1966 and 1968. |
Roots Reggae
Roots Reggae is the name given to Rastafarian reggae music from Jamaica, made famous by the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Marley. |
Ska
Ska is a form of Jamaican music which began in the late 1950s, it was a precursor in Jamaica to rocksteady and later reggae. |
Soca
Soca is a dance music which is a mix of Trinidad's calypso and Indian music and rhythms. |
