Reggae Music Analysis

Music has been my salvation; reggae music is my mainstay because the lyrics are like a sermon. Reggae is about life and the world around you. Listen to any Bob Marley record and you will hear what I speak of. In high school I listened to heavy metal which as a black teen is very rare but I was in the environment and so adapted. What is interesting is that, what I heard in heavy metal was nothing more that the blues that had been amplified and I called it amplified blues. My thought was that lack of passion and skill was replaced by decibels it is hard to hear errors on an electric guitar. Let’s look at Led Zeppelin who took the killing floor from Howling Wolf “Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music,” guitarist Jimmy Page once explained. “Between unique adaptations, clever arrangements and more than a few borrowed lyrics and melody lines – hats off here to Willie Dixon – Led Zeppelin returned to a full well of blues music for inspiration throughout the entirety of their …show more content…
Throughout my life beside my parents, music has been consistent. Basic training in the Army was the only time I was not allowed to listen to music. Otherwise it has been my constant companion. But as of late I have listening less and less to new music preferring to listen to what I am more familiar with, this is truer with hip hop. I am used to listening to music that has a good beat and a message in the song. This was true of early hip hop or rap, as it was called then. Today rap music is garbage, more about nothing, than not. I have no idea what the lyric say most times, then there is the rare instance where the music grabs me regardless of the lyrics. Like the Weberian theory this music has become more like an iron cage that the musicians are locked in where they produce nothing, but regurgitated samples of samples that is supposed to be