Reggae routes examines the ways in which this uniquely popular music expresses the dreams desires and realities of the jamaican people capturing the glad to be alive spirit which makes jamaican music so popular worldwide jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras each with a distinctive beat ska rocksteady reggae and dancehall ska dates from about 1960 to mid 1966 rocksteady from 1966 to 1968 while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat the reggae era had two . Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras each with a distinctive beat ska rocksteady reggae and dancehall ska dates from about 1960 to mid 1966 rocksteady from 1966 to 1968 while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat the reggae era had two phases early reggae up to 1974 and roots reggae up to 1983 since 1983 dancehall has been the prevale. For popular music fans in most of the world reggae looms so large as to be jamaicas only music and marley its consummate musician in this book jamaicans kevin chang and wayne chen offer a. Reggae routes the story of jamaican music 3263 buy now about the product bob marleys recordings some twenty years after his death still enjoy enormous international popularity for popular music fans in most of the world reggae looms so large as to be jamaicas only music and marley its consummate musician in this book j additional info click here to view more features of this