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Black Pride. In a country with some of the worst ghettos in the world, songwriters have plenty of material. By becoming social commentators, reggae songwriters like Jimmy Cliff, Toots Hibbert and Bob Marley and his group the Wailers have turned their island into one of the most music-conscious countries in the world. "Reggae songs are the strongest way to reach the people," says Songwriter Max Romeo. "People will pay a dollar for my message and reject the politician they can hear free of charge." The message is grim these days, with unemployment near 30% and the island a tinderbox...
...most popular reggae performer in both Jamaica and the U.S. is Bob Marley, 30, a dreadlocked singer who dispenses a back-to-the-roots philosophy with electric-rock intensity. A lean, imperious Rasta, Marley is deeply distrustful of politics. "Never make a politician grant you a favor, they will always want to control you forever," he sings in the song Revolution. The current hit single in Jamaica is his song about the island's upcoming parliamentary campaign. Its title: Rat Race...
...This is earth-feeling music," says Bob Marley, another Jamaican reggae star. In the sweep of the packed Orpheum, back across the misted edges of this vague, bent-spaced box of face-lost, swaying people, this power was realized, this music embraced...
...vibes from so many people who had been bent and broken and twisted and done in under that kind of structure. They wanted to get rid of the traces of any memories of slavery times." Yet Taj reveals those memories in "Slave Driver," a song written by Bob Marley on Mo Roots...
...early, sparsely arranged, stoned-out reggae sound. With just their bass, lead guitar, electric organ, and a steady, understated drum beat, they create an eerily hypnotic musical style. The force behind the group's unrelenting swaying rhythms builds up like the lava emerging from a volcano. Bob Marley's lyrics combine Rastafarlan spirituality with an uncompromising insistence on political freedom; the Wailers create an atmosphere of a revolutionary cadre holding a ganja party in a Kingston ghetto. Unfortunately, Paul's Mall, which offers no dance floor, is probably one of the worst places to sit and become engaged in such...