Raggae
Reggae is a
music genre first developed in
Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of
Jamaican music, the term
reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of
ska and
rocksteady.
Reggae is based on a rhythmic style characterized by accents on the
off-beat, known as the
skank. Reggae is normally slower than both ska and rocksteady.
[2] Reggae usually accents the second and fourth beat in each
bar, with the rhythm guitar also either emphasising the third beat or holding the chord on the second beat until the fourth is played. It is mainly this "third beat", its speed and the use of complex bass lines that differentiated reggae from rocksteady, although later styles incorporated these innovations separately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae
during the planning and research we saw that the reagge genre of music uses alot of explicit lyrics to go with the seductive nature of the music video.There is alot of women wearing reveling clothes analysts such as laura malvi would call this 'the male gaze'.
we looked at a variety of cd covers such as these and determined that these are the sort of covers that would attract the target audiance of males and females ages 17-25.
Dancehall...
Dancehall is a
genre of
Jamaicann popular music. A more sparse version of
reggae, it also speaks on politics and religion but not as directly as
roots style, which was associated with the
Rastafari movement, and had dominated much of the 1970s.
[1][2] In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably, with digital dancehall (or "
ragga") becoming increasingly characterized by faster rhythms. In the mid-1990s with the rise of dancehall
BoboShanti artists, such as
Sizzla and
Capleton, developed a very strong connection between dancehall and Rastafari.
Dancehall music has come under criticism from international organizations and individuals for its violent and sometimes anti-homosexual lyrics, although the lyrical themes are more varied than simply dealing with
slackness and violence.
[3] Dancehall owes its
moniker to the Jamaican
dance halls in which popular Jamaican recordings were played by local
sound systems
seen as our music genre is dancehall as well as reggae it was essential if we looked into that too
