Rastafarian music, including traditional Nyabingi chants, drumming and reggae. The traditional music of the Rastafarian religion is Nyabingi. Nyabingi music is used during reasoning sessions and ...

The 28th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA continued Monday with Reggae Day, which presented a strong focus on traditional reggae music and Rastafarian culture. Posters of Bob Marley, T-shirts ...

It may be news to some, but reggae music owes a great debt of gratitude to the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. For decades, Carlyle McKetty and Sharon Gordon of the Coalition to Preserve ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

At age 6, while growing up in Kiryat Arba, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Ester Rada began rejecting the music her Ethiopian refugee parents played at home, as well as the Amharic ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - With its wooden shacks on a beach shaded by palm trees, Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village" could be anywhere in West Africa -- if it wasn't for all the dreadlocks, Ethiopian flags and ...

A non-Rastafarian reggae musician who grew up a practicing Muslim, Tiken Jah Fakoly is a native of Africa’s Ivory Coast who draws most of his material and inspiration from his home continent. His ...

An exploration of the origins of reggae lyrics in the slave trade. Reggae's influence and popularity both within and outside Jamaica reflects its 'third-world origins'. In particular, reggae's roots ...

IT’S against his religion to smoke pot or wear dreadlocks – but that hasn’t stopped Matisyahu Miller from becoming New York’s first Hasidic Rasta-rapper. As dubious as his schtick may sound – it seems ...

Taking on the name Snoop Lion, the rapper embraces reggae on his new album and brings his Jamaican experience to the Toronto Film Festival in the form of a documentary. By Steve Bloom Call him Rasta ...

For evidence that Jamaican dancehall culture has trickled well into the mainstream, look no further than the recent MTV Video Music Awards. Dancehall act Elephant Man was a nominee; Missy Elliott ...

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