Reggae Sheet Music
History of Reggae Music: How Instrumental Is The History Of Drums In Modern Reggae?
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and commonly denotes the modern popular Jamaican music.
A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae," effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience however the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B that was practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint. These sounds evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady.
Human society considers music as one of its unique cultural aspect since prehistory. Paleolithic man have conceived the idea of creating rythmic sound through their most primitive audio device. Drums and percussion are the oldest musical tone heard in human ears.
Until today, these devices exist and still widely used. Contemporary drums may have come from these older percussions but until today, the archaic variety still remains culturally irreplaceable. However, the traditional drums are also culturally diverse in different parts of the globe.
As the cradle of human society, African and its music is primarily being attuned to drums mostly made of cured goat's skin. Their voodoo ancestor worship is often accompanied by vibrant drum banging and chanting. They believed that communal dancing and singing paves way for divine intervention.
In Europe, their primitive societies and civilizations use drums as one of their primary musical instrument. Vikings marauders and Greek naval adventurers use drums to synchronize the rowing. Ancient tribes in Germany and British Isles play the drums in their solemn cult ceremonies presided by their druids.
As far as Asian civilization is concerned, drums have been standard musical instrument in China. New year festivals litter the streets with a parade of musicians banging huge drums and cymbals to fill the town with revelry. Mascots of serpentine lions and dragons worn by dancers bop with the beat of the drummers.
In Japan, traditional music genre use drums as their primary instrument. The traditional drums are called "taiko" and they have been so symbolic the nation had its own drum festival. These drums are used not only in civil fuctions but also in war, and every feirce samurai warrior in his lord's fief rouse to the sound of the fat drum's alarm.
Native Americans, especially in the North American continent, consider leather-hewn drums as a powerful cultural and religious symbol. In the old pre-colonial days, drums are sounded to alarm the outposts of a runner from a foreign nation that bears some important message to the chief. But now that North American indigenous nations are united in peace, they still use the drums in their annual All Nation's Powwow.
Yet no other ancient drum genre gained great acceptance in global music in the contemporary times other than the indigenous islander cultures from the Pacific to the Caribbean. Reggae music has been very crucial into integrating traditional themes that used archaic skin-hued drums. The concept of beach vacation is simply no longer possible without reggae music, cocktails and surfing.
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