Talk:Reggae

Clean up

This article's wealth of information is a bit disorganized at the moment. I'm taking a stab at organizing what's here without adding or changing the material. Some tasks that need addressing:

• Putting things in a more chronological order
• Removing instances of repeated information
• Checking for consistency in style
• Formatting the lede and moving inline citations to the article's body

Please list any other tasks of this nature here. Perhaps we can even get the article up to GA status. Morganfitzp (talk) 14:51, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Earliest reggae record

The claim in the article that "The Pioneers' 1968 track "Long Shot (Bus' Me Bet)" has been identified as the earliest recorded example of the new rhythm sound that became known as reggae" is only made by one person, Mick Sleeper ([1]), and he no longer makes that claim in the same article: [2]. Yet that claim has been copied from Wikipedia by at least two books: [3], [4]. We need to be very careful when making such claims that there is a wide acceptance, or the source needs to be very authoritative; and even then we don't state it as a fact in the voice of Wikipedia, but make clear that only one person says it. We're now in a position where books we might use as reliable sources to confirm the truth have taken that "fact" straight from Wikipedia (without even changing the words much), while the original (dubious?) source - a self published site run as a hobby which is by its own admission "long on enthusiasm and short on facts", has withdrawn the claim. It may well be true, but at the moment it's an opinion that isn't supported, and an opinion that the originator himself no longer believes in. I'm removing it until a better source can be found (other than Wikipedia mirrors). SilkTork (talk) 10:45, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

The Pioneers' 1968 track "Long Shot (Bus' Me Bet)" has been identified as the earliest recorded example of the new rhythm sound that became known as reggae.

References

Cod reggae?

I've recently seen the term "cod reggae" in a few other Wikipedia articles, but not in this one. This seems to be "imitation reggae". It would be useful if there were a brief explanation of the term someone in Wikipedia. Is it enough to warrant a separate article? Or might it be better as a short, anchored section in this article? Feline Hymnic (talk) 21:46, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

"Cod" in this context simply means "inauthentic". I agree that the term "cod reggae" is used, usually to describe white rock bands attempting to play the music, and perhaps should be mentioned in this article - not a separate article - if good sources for its use can be found. Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:03, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I've added a short section at the end of the article, using a Guardian article as a source. Feline Hymnic (talk) 22:19, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Ska

Does anyone here think Ska is a genre of Reggae? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C7:C201:C640:D5B6:50B1:EBB3:570F (talk) 03:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Ska pre-dates reggae, so can't be a sub-genre of it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:15, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Is reggae a subgenre of ska? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C7:C201:C640:D5B6:50B1:EBB3:570F (talk) 16:36, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

No. Please get over your obsession with genres and subgenres. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:50, 18 June 2021 (UTC)