The island is also home to a diversity of traditional musics, and it is their development that gave birth to the host of Jamaican popular musics that are today celebrated supremely in the contexts of ‘World Music’ and beyond. In fact, reggae is often regarded as the archetype of ‘World Music’ with its familiar yet exotic soundworld, its ‘local’ expression rooted in a particular place and distinctive community and its ‘global’ envoicement of pan-African liberatory politics, confident globalism and otherworldly spirituality. Reggae, in particular, was one of the first genres beyond Anglo-American popular music to become trulyglobal and has since captured the imaginations of musicians and listeners around the world, establishing itself as one of only a few rivals to Anglo-American popular music musics on an international scale a feat all the more impressive given the island’s tiny population. Jamaican music is amongst the best travelled in the world of music.
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