When1: 1964
When2: 1977
Who: Bob Marley [Marley, Bob] or Robert Nesta Marley [Marley, Robert Nesta]/Wailers
What: composer/singer
Where: Jamaica
works\ Simmer Down [1964]; Get Up, Stand Up [1973]; I Shot the Sheriff [1974: sung by Eric Clapton]; No Woman, No Cry [1974]; One Love [1977: based on Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready]; Punk Reggae Party [1977]
Detail: He lived 1945 to 1981. He popularized Jamaican slower dance music {reggae}, which came after ska and rocksteady. In reggae, guitarist plays regular chops on backbeat {skank}, and drummer plays rhumba box on measure third beat {one drop}. Ska fast calypso can derive from mento, calypso, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Calypso {rocksteady} can be slower [1966 to 1968].
Jamaican folk music {mento} uses acoustic guitar, banjo, hand drums, and large-box mbira {rhumba box}.
Trinidad and Tobago calypso has African and Spanish influences. East Africa and West Indies use wood boards {thumb piano} {mbira huru} {mbira njari} {mbira nyunga nyunga} {marimba} {karimba} {kalimba}, with staggered metal keys and resonators.
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