Lovers rock

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Music of Jamaica
Kumina	Nyabinghi
Mento	Ska
Rocksteady	Reggae
Sound systems	Lovers rock
Dub	Dancehall
Dub poetry	Toasting
Raggamuffin	Roots reggae
US	UK
Timeline and Samples
Anglophone Caribbean music
Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Bermuda - Caymans - Grenada - Jamaica - Montserrat - St. Kitts and Nevis - St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands
Other Caribbean
Aruba and the Dutch Antilles - Cuba - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Haiti - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Puerto Rico - St. Lucia

For the Sade album, see Lovers Rock. "Lover's Rock" is also the title of a song by The Clash, that appeared on their 1979 album London Calling.

Lovers Rock is the United Kingdom's main contribution to reggae. A style which developed in England in the 1970s, Lovers Rock represented an apolitical counterpoint to the conscious Rastafarian sound dominant in Jamaica. Rooted in the Sound systems of South London, the style had particular appeal amongst women and produced many female stars including Carol Thompson, Louisa Marks and Janet Kay, who went on to reach Number 2 in the UK pop charts with "Silly Games" in 1979. Lovers rock is a more lovers style of music and a music derived from reggae by the slowing down of the reggae beat.

Recommended artists :

• Barry Biggs
• Judge Dread
• Don Campbell
• Beres Hammond
• Freddie McGregor
• Luciano
• Winston Reedy

 

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