Reggae is not one style of music, sure there are similarities like the emphasis on the off-beat, but it is an amalgamation of styles, including mento, which is more traditional and there is ska which is faster incorporating horns. Later there was more synthesizer but some of the early dancehall sounds used an organ, not keyboards, which is later the sound of raggamuffin. Some more noticeable aspects of reggae have been afro-centric lyrics, which is heavily inspired by Rastafarianism. There is an acknowledgement of figures like Marcus Garvey who did some miraculous feats like buy an entire cruise ship to return his people back to Africa. This is absolutely true and Garvey was charged with attempting to sell stocks of a ship he did not own. This was all attempt to thwart the efforts of a black liberation movement.
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