And despite the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the immigration of Jamaicans to the UK, especially England, remained rather significant throughout the 1960s.
This subculture appeared for precise (.)Ģ “Between 19 approximately 175, 000 Jamaicans from town and country boarded the banana boats destined for London, Liverpool and other British ports” (Chevannes 1994: 263). 1 Sound systems emerged in the late 1940s in Kingston’s ghettos.The Impact of Reggae Music on Europe 1.1. Thus, my paper will examine the impact of reggae music on the worldwide cultural universe, focusing particularly on Europe, the USA and Africa. Finally, since the end of the 1970s, it has also influenced singers originating from Africa, the Ivorian singers Alpha Blondy and Tiken Jah Fakoly, and the South African Lucky Dube clearly illustrating this point.
During the same decade, it inspired the first rappers in the USA, giving rise to hip-hop culture. In the 1970s, it impacted on Western punk rock/ pop cultures, influencing artists like Eric Clapton and The Clash. Indeed, by the end of the 1960s, it participated in the birth of the skinhead movement in the UK. Its slow jerky rhythm, its militant and spiritual lyrics as well as the rebellious appearance of its singers, among others, have influenced musical genres, cultures and societies throughout the world, contributing to the development of new counterculture movements, especially in Europe, in the USA and Africa. When it emerged in the late 1960s, it came as a cultural bombshell not only to Jamaica but the whole world. 1 Reggae is the musical genre which revolutionized Jamaican music.
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