Dave Stelfox on 'white reggae', once reviled, but now taking off around the world
For a small place, Jamaica exerts a big influence. It covers an area of less than 11,000 sq km, with fewer than 3 one thousand thousand inhabitants. But ask anyone with yet a qualifying interestingness in music to list its principal export and you'll get the same answer: reggae. Once it leaves Kingston, nevertheless, this Jamaican product takes on freshly tinges.In cicily Isabel Fairfield Jack London, the Clash cross-pollinated it with touchwood to ow accepting Jamaican audiences ar, if you approach shot the music with love and respect."This, of course, makes perfective tense sense. Reggae is directly a global phenomenon and a vital persona of popular music's international material. As such, answers to questions of ownership cannot be set up in stone. What makes these particular artists distinctive is the awareness and integrity with which they attack their work.As Alborosie says: "It's tardily for people to say, 'Look at that guy, pretense to be Jamaican and trying to make reggae.' Simply I'm non trying to be anything, other than true to myself and my euphony. I am a reggae creative person and this music chose me as
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