That's what I would like to know - 70's / 80's Stuff like bob marley / Island and Johnny Nash CBS etc. Is it Dancehall or is that something more specialist.

Cheers

Mick

dancehall isnt reggae

i would say just what you did...commercial reggae...not quite hard enough for 'roots' or soft enough for 'lovers'.....

as far as dancehall goes i think it does include some reggae...artists such as sanchez and frankie paul are dancehall...digital rhythms built for the danchall as opposed to full bands playing highly produced music but still musically reggae... before the roots and dancehall acts such as wailing souls and yellowman shared the same rhythms....unlike 'ragga' which is another sub genre of reggae with a different beat which takes over from the bassline as the most important bit...especially when dancing...this complete change in rhythm happened about '91 with tunes like 'bogle' by buju banton which was named after and about the new dance to this type of rhythm...named after a man who started the dance whos surname was bogle

can remember working with a sound system in norwich at that time importing tunes straight from JA and people saying thats not reggae...how do you dance to that?!...now artists like sean paul and beenieman are household names to a generation of kids who have grown up with it...and can even be heard in the background on eastenders!!

just like soul has....rnb,tamla,northern,crossover,mid-tempo,70s,modern etc...all very different but still connected and influenced by each over as time passed so has reggae....ska,rocksteady,boss 'skinhead'reggae,roots,lovers,uk steppers,dub,dancehall,ragga...

IMO

dean

Thanks folks - it was for some stuff to put on eBay, and their catagories are ...

Dancehall / Dub / Ska / Roots ... and Other.

So I suppuse "Other" covers this lot

Original dancehall 78-82 is reggae, pre-digital, how can it not be reggae?

agree..as i said wailing souls and yellowman etc...all those greensleeves 12"s....and the reggae that influenced such as under mi sleng teng and ring the alarm is dancehall....i think toad probably meant ragga...sure he will be on later...

dean

I'm keeping out of this one !!! regards Simon.

I'm keeping out of this one !!! regards Simon.

Yep, me too...........spacehopper seems to know what he's talking about...........leave it to the experts, that's what I say!!!

Edited November 4, 201113 yr by Carol J

Stick 'ska' in the description, everyone else does.