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It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...

Batalá Washington introduces the sounds and roles that each drum plays in the bateria, and puts together a basic samba reggae groove. Part of a series of educational videos created for the Smithsonian ...

This is the six of a 10-part series looking at the impact of dancehall/reggae culture around the world. SINCE the dark days of apartheid, reggae has played a pivotal role in South Africa. Jamaican ...