Reggae routes the story of jamaican music kevin obrien chang wayne chen temple university press 1998 music 246 pages 1 review bob marleys recordings some twenty years after his death still enjoy enormous international popularity for popular music fans in most of the world reggae looms so large as to be jamaicas only music and . Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras each with a distinctive beat ska rocksteady reggae and dancehall ska dates from about 1960 to mid 1966 rocksteady from 1966 to 1968 while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat the reggae era had two phases early reggae up to 1974 and roots reggae up to 1983. Reggae routes the story of jamaican music 3263 buy now about the product bob marleys recordings some twenty years after his death still enjoy enormous international popularity for popular music fans in most of the world reggae looms so large as to be jamaicas only music and marley its consummate musician in this book j. From kumina to mento ska to rocksteady reggae to dancehall roots to ragga this is the authentic story of jamaican popular music told for the first time by jamaicans in jamaica reggae is more than music it is the nations main collective emotional outlet and its chief cultural contribution to the world reggae routes examines the ways in which this uniquely popular music expresses