Origins of the founding of Reggae Music

Perhaps among the readers are already familiar with reggae music, popular music popularized by Bob Marley. Therefore I was interested in writing an article about reggae and in part the contents of this article I took from kaskus.us forum.

Around the 1920's, people living in Kingston Jamaica poor and destitute state, they are oppressed by the white invaders are considered 'White Imperialism'.

The emergence of philosophy that was identified as 'Back To Africa' which was pioneered by Marcus Garvey, who took the blacks reaffirming their belief in the origins of their ancestors. They gained confidence and a 'Black African' named Ras Tafari Makonnen was ditabalkan as the Maharaja of Ethiopia with a mat Emperor Haile Selassie and his followers were deploying his Rastafarians and consider them one instead of 12 fathers of Israel and believe Haile Selassie 1 is the 'Lion of the Conquerring Tribe of Judah '.

 Confidence during the very early emergence of radical versus now. Rastafarians hate whites class and label their culture as' Babylon'-not original and not sincere, greedy and meterialistik. The death of Haile Selassie 1 in 1974 was unexpected by Rastafarians, in fact there is a conspiracy ynag death media accuse whites. Like any culture and religion continues to grow despite the emperor was dead. Big names that have been developed Rastafarianisme 1970s is Bob Marley.

At first muzik Rastafariansme class is transformed into ska and rocksteady and reggae. Raggae express them, and protesting injustice and oppression that dideritai by people who Jamaica.Salah one aspect Rastafarianisne despised is the use of marijuana as one of the main tools in the life and religious ceremonies. Regarding Hair Dreadlocks, Rastafarians do not encourage his followers menyukur, brushing hair, or cut it as said in their books. For them, long hair berketul-dull and unkempt wild is likened to 'Lion of Judah', a lion's head-shaped symbol that symbolizes the power of Haile Selassie 1.

He is said to have a lion's head ring and he has submitted to Bob Marley before his death. The words 'Dreadlocks' dipopularkan by Bob Marley through the song 'Natty Locks'. In terms of the red color symbolizes the Church Triumphant or the Church Rastafarians and their blood, the color yellow symbolizes the wealth of Ethiopia and the color green symbolizes beauty and fertility of plants in Ethiopia.

Marcus Garvey who spearheaded the struggle of the Negro in an organized manner by forming the Universal Negro Improvement Association is an organization that builds new awareness among the people native Jamaica in 1914 in Jamaica. In stark contrast to Bob Marley who have voiced the oppressed in his songs without any attempt to form a resistance organization.

The biggest contribution of Bob Marley's Rastafarian beliefs popularized throughout the world through songs and music played. If Marcus Garvey did not form a resistance organization, rasta hair culture may not be global like now. Culture that in fact belongs to the black that is often identified with the culture of the slaves now actually be appreciated by even imitated the white-out, sold throughout the world as a commodity by the capitalists for profit. Just look at the manner of dress, type of music is often sung the black, the black hair style now finally adopted by white people who meant the world to make culture.

Identity awareness movement history of blacks, who then bertemali closely with the presence of reggae music, began sowing at the beginning of the 20th century. Is Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a priest and Jamaican black activist, who threw the idea of ​​"Africa for the African Nations ..." and called for the movement of repatriation (refoulement) of black people outside Africa. In 1914, Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Unia), socio-religious movement which was considered as a new identity consciousness movement for blacks.

  In 1916-1922, Garvey left Jamaica to build Unia headquarters in Harlem, New York. It is said that until the year 1922, Unia has more than 7 million followers. Between the years 1928-1930 Garvey returned to Jamaica and was involved in the political struggle of the black and in 1929 Garvey predicted the arrival of an African king who marked the liberation of blacks from the oppression of Babylon (the term for the white colonial government, referring to the scriptural story about Babylon is oppressing the people of Israel). When Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned as king of Ethiopia in 1930, the title of HIM Haile Selassie I, the followers of the teachings of Garvey regard Ras Tafari as a liberator that. They also consider Ethiopia as Zion-land-for peace like a paradise blacks within and outside Africa. Garvey's teachings also manifest a new religion called Rastafari Haile Selassie as a figure with an in-my god.

In April 1966, because of the threat of social conflict involving the Rastas, the government of Jamaica invite HIM Haile Selassie I visit to find penghayat Rastafari. He delivered the message to provide land in Southern Ethiopia to Rasta repatriation. But Haile Selassie Rastas also stressed the need to liberate Jamaica from oppression and injustice and make Rastafari as a way of life, before their exodus to Ethiopia.

The years that followed the credo of the movement continued to spread widely, the "union of humanity is the message, the music is the modus operandi, peace on earth as in heaven (Zion) is the goal, fighting for the rights of way and eliminate all forms of physical and mental oppression is the essence the struggle. "

When Bob Marley became a follower of Rastafari in 1967 and a year later followed the birth of reggae, the modus operandi of the spread of the teachings of Rastafari was found: the reggae!

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