The tradition
Reggae ( ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also refers to the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. The 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals titled "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.¶
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reggae is music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 59 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.
| Source | Type | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata: reggae (Q9794) | database | Wikidata |
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