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Originally Posted by Restless
Oops I meant to write that the other way around...
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Closer, but Rhythm & Blues was the root of reggae. R&B was hugely popular in JA in the 50's via the big sound systems who played at big open air dances. When R&B started to die out in the late 50's, the sound system owners needed fresh records to play, so they got local musicians to record their own original version of R&B, which came out with a distinctly Jamaican slant - this morphed into ska which, in turn, morphed in rocksteady which morphed into reggae.
That's an abbreviated version, but I don't want to bore you too much!