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Reggae Music

Roger St. Pierre, West Indian World, 23 July 1971

"REGGAE" – JAMAICA'S own form of pop music – has made a dynamic impact on the pop scene around the world and yet an amazing amount of mystery and misunderstanding surrounds both its origins and its content, even among West Indian listeners.

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