The musician becomes the messenger, and as Rastafari see it, "the soldier and the musician are tools for change." Reggae music is an important means of transporting vital messages of Rastafari. Soon after the Rastafarian movement appeared, the international popularity of reggae music became associated with and increased the visibility of Rastafari and spread its gospel throughout the world. Reggae is deeply linked to Rastafari, an Afrocentric religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, aiming at promoting pan-Africanism. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, 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, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. 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. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. Reggae ( / ˈ r ɛ ɡ eɪ/) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
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