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Sub-genre of dancehall music and reggae
Ragga
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Cultural origins
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Raggamuffin music
(or simply
ragga
) is a subgenre of
dancehall
and
reggae
music. The instrumentals primarily consist of
electronic music
with heavy use of
sampling
.
Wayne Smith
's "
Under Mi Sleng Teng
", produced by
King Jammy
in 1985 on a
Casio MT-40
synthesizer, is a seminal ragga song. "Sleng Teng" boosted Jammy's popularity immensely, and other producers quickly released their own versions of the
riddim
, accompanied by dozens of different vocalists.
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citation needed
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Origins
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Ragga originated in
Jamaica
during the 1980s, at the same time that
electronic dance music
's popularity was increasing globally. Ragga spread to Europe, North America, and Africa, eventually spreading to Japan, India, and the rest of the world. Ragga heavily influenced
early jungle music
, and also spawned the
syncretistic
bhangragga
style when fused with
bhangra
. In the 1990s, ragga and
breakcore
music fused, creating a style known as
raggacore
.
The term "raggamuffin" is an intentional misspelling of "
ragamuffin
", a word that entered the
Jamaican Patois
lexicon after the
British Empire
colonized
Jamaica in the 17th century.
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citation needed
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Despite the British colonialists' pejorative application of the term, Jamaican youth
appropriated
it as an
ingroup
designation. The term "raggamuffin music" describes the
music of Jamaica
's "ghetto dwellers".
Ragga and hip hop music
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King Jammy
produced 1985 hit, "
(Under Me) Sleng Teng
" by
Wayne Smith
.
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In the late 1980s, Jamaican deejay
Daddy Freddy
and
Asher D
's "
Ragamuffin Hip-Hop
" became the first multinational
single
to feature the word "ragga" in its title.
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See also
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References
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- The world of DJs and the turntable culture By Todd Souvignier
- Stascha (Sta?a) Bader:
Worte wie Feuer: Dancehall Reggae und Raggamuffin
.
Words Like Fire. Dancehall Reggae and Raggamuffin
. Dissertation Thesis at the Zurich University, 1986. Buchverlag Michael Schwinn, Neustadt, Deutschland, 1. Aufl. 1988, 2. Aufl. 1992
- Rene Wynands:
Do The Reggae. Reggae von Pocomania bis Ragga und der Mythos Bob Marley.
Pieper Verlag und Schott. 1995
ISBN
3-492-18409-X
(Pieper),
ISBN
3-7957-8409-3
(Schott)
Online-Version
- Norman C. Stolzoff:
Wake the Town and Tell the People. Dancehall Culture in Jamaica.
Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2000.
ISBN
0-8223-2478-4
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