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Jammin’ in Jamaica

All Around This World -- The Caribbean featuring Jamaica

This week in our online class we’re fortunate enough to travel to Jamaica, a small island nation that has had a disproportionate influence on global music and culture.  Jamaican musicians have either originated or advanced so very many musical styles such as, in roughly chronological order, Kumina, Nyabinghi, Mento, Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, Dub and Dancehall/Ragga. Though we’re going to meet a few of these genres over the course of the week, there won’t be enough time. We’ll leave wanting more, and more, and more….

You’ll Find All the Caribbean in Bob Marley

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.

And Then Scratch Perry Met Bob

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.