There is nothing one has to say about music from Jamaica beyond “Bob Marley.”
… and our three month All Around This World tour of the Caribbean ends with this Jamaican legend…all of the Caribbean’s history, strugle, power and passion comes together, as it does in this video, in Bob Marley.
Lee “Scratch” Perry was a visionary musician and producer who many music historians credit with morphing ska into the reggae we know today. The most influential and best-known of all Jamaican styles of music, reggae fused the grooves of rocksteady, the spiritual drive of Nyabinghi music and the global political imperative of the late ’60s. “Scratch” Perry worked with (or against) almost every popular Jamaican musician during the 1960s, including a young, talented Marley named Bob. Meet Perry in this video. Reggae icon Bob Marley continues to inspire generations with his message of unity through shared struggle and personal and popular revelation as a means of achieving peace.
Can we possibly visit the Caribbean for three months of our online classes and sweep past the enormous contribution to the world made by Jamaican legend Bab Marley? No way! In this video we enjoy a live performance of “Redemption Song,” which is as close to perfect as a song can get.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
