reggae

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies. Rastafari,uncountable
    — Near-synonym: (earlier) bluebeat

词形变化

reggay alternative

词源

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Compare ragtime. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 Maytals song “Do the Reggay”.
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