Reggae: Kingston’s Gift to the World
Reggae, a musical genre barely over fifty years old, was born in the late 1960s in Kingston, Jamaica, from a cultural melting pot of African, European, and Caribbean influences, shaped by Rastafarianism, political unrest, and technological innovation. What started as mento and ska evolved
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