18/04/11

Over the past 2 weeks i have been researching and writing about modern day reggae artists like Ziggy Marley (son of bob) and Bedouin Soundclash. I have found it really interesting how still to this day reggae artists are drawing religious influence from the faith of Rastafari. Its not just the die hard reggae artist either who are being inspired by the word of 'Jah', reggae fusion artists such as Ben Harper and Finlay Quaye mention both the spiritual smoking of Marijuana and the Lion of Judah.

I am now ready for the conclusion... then end is near!!!! :)

JP

04/04/11

Over the past while I have been researching more into the lyrics of reggae music and how the can be related to the faith of Rastafarianism. Iv now written about old skool reggae band Toots and the Maytals and have found some very interesting things which i have included in my study. I then managed to move onto the Reggae Britannia era.. basically meaning the vast influx of reggae onto the UK. Amazingly i have managed to find British reggae bands that draw inspiration from this predominantly Caribbean/African religion. Artists like UB40, Musical Youth and Aswad all can be seen to have inspiration from the faith.

JP