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...that has advocates like Britain's leading gay rights veteran Peter Tatchell up in arms. A few years ago, along with Jamaican groups, Tatchell launched the Stop Murder Music campaign, aimed at bringing the genre to heel. Tatchell has recently succeeded in convincing some of the most notoriously homophobic figures in reggae and dancehall music to stop singing violently anti-gay lyrics like Jamaica-based artist Capleton's hit "More Prophet": "Shoulda know seh Capleton bun battyman [burn gays]/ Dem same fire apply to di lesbian/ All boogaman [gays] and sodomites fi get killed...
...Boom Bye Bye" also advocates the shooting and burning of gay men - last week signed the "reggae compassionate act" after a three-year campaign by Stop Murder Music. Banton, a Grammy-nominated artist who broke Bob Marley's record of most number one singles in a year on the Jamaican charts, pledged to "respect" the rights of gays to live without fear of violence...
...public defender in Washington 20 years ago, Angela Davis defended a Jamaican immigrant against rape charges. The man had no criminal record and insisted on his innocence but was forced to stay in jail because he could not afford bail...
...from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called “Dem Bow” after the Jamaican dancehall song it was borrowed from. I’m a part-time party DJ, so I was embarrassed to have been so ignorant of a whole world of dance music. But I wasn’t all that late to the game. It was only in 2004 that...
...event.Reggaeton, the territory of Luny Tunes, fits directly into the multicultural approach of Presencia Latina. Alexis M. Pacheco ’08, director of Presencia Latina, says.“While reggaeton may be party music for a lot of people, it started as a mixture of Jamaican music, and African beats, and hip-hop, and a mixture of music that doesn’t represent just one Latino country,” says Pacheco.“Reggaeton is not only Puerto Rico, it’s something that all Latinos can identify with,” she adds...