There were three main musical styles that influenced reggae. This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s. Like calypso it is strophic in form and has light-hearted lyrics ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento, but in the 40s and 50s Jamaicans were also listening to music from the ...