Reggae and dancehall in the genre tree

[Freso]

Right now we have reggae and dance hall under caribbean and latin american. This is fine. But then ska is its own "top" genre, with the child dancehall. I would say that dance hall should be a child of dancehall so it can get normalised, and I would either place everything under caribbean and latin american or make a reggae a top genre with ska, dancehall, roots reggae, dub, ragga etc. as children.

(We also have ragga jungle under ska and ragga-jungle under oldschool jungle (under drum and bass).)

[sampsyo]

Hmm, yes—that "dance hall" discrepancy is particularly glaring. A top-level reggae, separate from Caribbean/Latin, makes sense to me. (Although I'm only a casual reggae listener!)

100% approved if you'd like to make changes.

[sampsyo]

Hmm, yes—that "dance hall" discrepancy is particularly glaring. A top-level reggae, separate from Caribbean/Latin, makes sense to me. (Although I'm only a casual reggae listener!)

100% approved if you'd like to make changes.

[Freso]

AudioGalaxy's genre tree also had "reggae" as a top level genre, with dancehall et al being sub genres of that. One historical note is that ska actually is a precursor to reggae, not the other way around, but as Wikipedia notes (emphasis mine):

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. _While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music_, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady.

So I think it is probably okay to use "reggae" as the top genre, as long as we also add "roots reggae" as a way to include "real" reggae for the distinguished reggae listeners.

I'll try and get this changed tomorrow. Way too late to even be up right now to begin with…

[Freso]

AudioGalaxy's genre tree also had "reggae" as a top level genre, with dancehall et al being sub genres of that. One historical note is that ska actually is a precursor to reggae, not the other way around, but as Wikipedia notes (emphasis mine):

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. _While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music_, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady.

So I think it is probably okay to use "reggae" as the top genre, as long as we also add "roots reggae" as a way to include "real" reggae for the distinguished reggae listeners.

I'll try and get this changed tomorrow. Way too late to even be up right now to begin with…

[Freso]

Or not… Definitely bed time now!

[Freso]

Or not… Definitely bed time now!

[sampsyo]

Nice! Thanks, @Freso. 😴

[sampsyo]

Nice! Thanks, @Freso. 😴