MUSIC 151 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Desmond Dekker, 007 (Shanty Town), Alton Ellis
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The united states and great britain have been the primary producers of rock, which has influenced music in all corners of the world. Many cultures and countries had assimilated rock into their own traditional music to create distinctive hybrids of genres. It is not rare for these hybrids to come into mainstream rock. One such example that developed close to the united. States was reggae, a musical product of the lower-class blacks of jamaica. The predecessor to reggae was a rural, local music called mento. The mento rhythm was influenced by african-american and african-caribbean styles, with melodies derived from. Rustic instruments such as bamboo trumpets, glass bottles, and metal scrapers were used to play this style of music. In the 1950s, jamaica was exposed to american rhythm and blues. Jamaica"s close proximity to the southern united states allowed its people to pick up am radio broadcasts from new orleans and miami.
