Lovers rock

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Lovers Rock is a reggae style that developed from Great Britain in the mid-1970s . In Lovers Rock, reggae merges with elements of soul and R&B , while romantic themes predominate in the lyrics.

Love songs were already an integral part of reggae in the past, but never formed a subgenre of their own. However, when roots reggae and mainstream reggae increasingly devoted themselves to politically, socially critical or spiritual themes of the Rastafarian movement during the 1970s, Lovers Rock developed from London as an "antithesis", a style that is characterized by lighter themes and softer music made a difference. The first Lovers rock hit was Caught You in a Lie by singer Louisa Mark in 1975 , a cover version of a song by Robert Parker . Stylistically, the song was a fusion of soul and reggae, and producer Dennis Bovell is one of the founders of the new style.

Lovers Rock was not able to establish itself as the predominant style in Jamaica at any time , but it was also well received by the audience and numerous roots reggae musicians who were musically influenced by it or who expanded their repertoire to include this genre, such as a. Sugar Minott , Gregory Isaacs , Dennis Brown, and Freddie McGregor . The importance that Lovers Rock had for the much smaller reggae scene in Great Britain, especially in the late 1970s and during the 1980s, was never achieved in the homeland of reggae. Important representatives of the British rock lover are u. a. Maxi Priest , Sandra Cross and Aswad .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Bratfisch, Reggae-Lexikon , 1999, ISBN 3-89602-207-5

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