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She Boom, She Boom - African a

She Boom, She Boom - African a Reggae

She Boom, She Boom - African a

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(2000/Westside) 18 tracks booklet. African-American Influences On Reggae 1963-73 She-Boon She-Boom  'The Big Beat Keeps You Rocking On Your Feet'... ...And it came to pass that the American Rhythm & Blues of the 1950s and early 1960s begat reggae. Well, almost . Before Jamaica's national music - and its most outstanding world export - became 'reggae', it inevitably passed through several stages of metamorphosis. First there was the shuffle. the island's own individualistic representation of the sounds that beamed daily and nightly from clear-channel R&B stations in America's deep south - stations that could be heard the length and breadth of Jamaica when good weather conditions prevailed - and over massive sound systems at blues dances island-wide. The whole Ja. music industry that we know today stems from the shuffle, which was initially created to satiate demand for this style after the American R&B scene had moved on and away from it. Eventually the shuffle evolved into Ska, itself still influenced to a degree by the pre-Soul music of Black America. And as US R&B ultimately moved to the backburner to let Soul take over in the mid 60s, so Ska gave way first to soul-influenced rock steady and, eventually, to reggae - but those R&B influences never totally left Jamaican music. as you're about to find out if you've bought this compact disc... To complement its two volumes of reggae versions of soul originals. 'The Music Got Soul' (WESA 847) and 'The Music Got Mo' Soul' (WESA 848), Westside's compilers-that-be now present a dozen and a half tracks which all have their musical origins in the aforementioned pre-Soul era but which successfully adapted to a Jamaican treatment. Presented in a chronology approximate to their original release date (these versions. not the US originals), they show how important American R&B was to the evolution of what we now know as reggae. Few would dispute this writer's assertion that you cou...
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Release Date:
2002-05-01
Publication Date:
2002-05-01
Publisher:
Westside
Weight:
91 g
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