Jamaican music is catalyst for social change
The main stream spread of reggae music; it has become a catalyst for change in countries other than its root country Jamaica. The influence of reggae music has been tremendous due to artist like Peter Tosh, Burning Spear and the Legendary Bob Marley. To discuss the influence of reggae music; we will focus on the African Country of South Africa.
Before we dive into the meat of the matter there is an important term that must be defined as you will be hearing a lot about it in this presentation.
Apartheid – An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
Through the music of Jamaican artist such as Peter Tosh, Burning Spear and Bob Marley, Young South Africans who were anti-apartheid found inspiration, motivation and influence. They used the Jamaican musical genre as a voice to their cause or theme songs to their fight. For example in 1977 Reggae Star Peter Tosh produced the song Fight Apartheid.
Now I would like to pay close attention to the line where he mentions about prisons and keep it in mind as it will resurface later on in this presentation.
There is a saying with goes imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Although they were exposed to Jamaican songs it would not have such an impact if artist such as Johnny Clegg, O’Yaba and Lucky Dube did not start to sing and produce their own reggae music in English as well as their own languages of Zulu or Afrikaan.
With reggae music South African Artist were able to break down social barriers. Johnny Clegg formed the first inter racial band in South Africa which was against apartheid laws. Despite that fact and the many concerts that were shut down and cancelled due to apartheid the band still continued to produce and perform songs against Apartheid.
O’yaba which was an all-black South African band produced many songs against the apartheid, although they got banned on the airwaves and
Before we dive into the meat of the matter there is an important term that must be defined as you will be hearing a lot about it in this presentation.
Apartheid – An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
Through the music of Jamaican artist such as Peter Tosh, Burning Spear and Bob Marley, Young South Africans who were anti-apartheid found inspiration, motivation and influence. They used the Jamaican musical genre as a voice to their cause or theme songs to their fight. For example in 1977 Reggae Star Peter Tosh produced the song Fight Apartheid.
Now I would like to pay close attention to the line where he mentions about prisons and keep it in mind as it will resurface later on in this presentation.
There is a saying with goes imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Although they were exposed to Jamaican songs it would not have such an impact if artist such as Johnny Clegg, O’Yaba and Lucky Dube did not start to sing and produce their own reggae music in English as well as their own languages of Zulu or Afrikaan.
With reggae music South African Artist were able to break down social barriers. Johnny Clegg formed the first inter racial band in South Africa which was against apartheid laws. Despite that fact and the many concerts that were shut down and cancelled due to apartheid the band still continued to produce and perform songs against Apartheid.
O’yaba which was an all-black South African band produced many songs against the apartheid, although they got banned on the airwaves and