0 a type of popular music with strong rhythms that was originally from Jamaica -- reggae
(also adjective) a reggae band.
Reggae was thus a signifying system as much as an authentic and homogenous tradition.
Usually, it would just be a whole lot of reggae bands playing.
We were thought of as those who made trouble for reggae.
This change coincided with the coming of reggae music and a decided turn to the political.
In particular, the section on the importance of reggae and dancehall music as forms of political and cultural expression is fascinating.
This, then, is one of the most salient features of reggae's globalisation.
Only unlike the reggae bands, we weren't invited to perform, and we would have to beg the organisers to get a chance to perform.
Put somewhat bluntly, reggae is a local music wherever it winds up being performed and used.
