Perhaps among the readers are already familiar with reggae music, famous music popularized by Bob Marley. Therefore I was interested to write articles about reggae and in part the contents of this article I took from the forum kaskus.us.
Around the 1920s, people living in Kingston Jamaica poor and destitute state, they are oppressed by the white invaders are considered 'white imperialism'.
The emergence of philosophy that was identified as 'Back To Africa' which was pioneered by Marcus Garvey, who led blacks to reaffirm their belief in the origins of their ancestors. They gained confidence and a 'Black African' has been named Ras Tafari Makonnen as Emperor ditabalkan Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie with a mat and his followers were deploying his Rastafarians and consider them one instead of 12 fathers of Israel and believe Haile Selassie 1 is the 'Lion of the Conquerring Tribe of Judah '.
Confidence during the very early emergence of radical versus now. Rastafarians hate whites and label groups of their culture as' Babylon'-not original and not sincere, greedy and meterialistik. The death of Haile Selassie 1 in 1974 was unexpected by the Rastafarians, instead there ynag accused of his death one of the white media conspiracy. Like any culture and religion continued to grow despite the emperor was dead. Big names that have been developed Rastafarianisme 1970s is Bob Marley.
At first muzik Rastafariansme class is transformed into ska and rocksteady and reggae. Raggae express them, and protesting injustice and oppression dideritai by people Jamaica.Salah Rastafarianisne one aspect of the despised is the use of marijuana as one of the 'main means of life and religious ceremonies. Regarding Hair Dreadlocks, Rastafarians do not encourage his followers menyukur, brushing hair, or cut it as said in their books. For them, long hair berketul-dull and unkempt wild is likened to 'Lion of Judah', a symbol of the lion-shaped head that symbolizes the power of Haile Selassie 1.
He is said to have a lion's head ring and he has been handed to Bob Marley before his death. The words' Dreadlocks' dipopularkan by Bob Marley through the song "Natty Locks'. In terms of the red color symbolizes the Church or the Church Triumphant Rastafarians and their blood, the color yellow symbolizes the richness of Ethiopia and the color green symbolizes beauty and fertility of crops in Ethiopia.
Marcus Garvey who spearheaded the struggle of the Negro in an organized manner with the forming of The Universal Negro Improvement Association is an organization that builds new awareness among people native Jamaica in 1914 in Jamaica. In stark contrast to Bob Marley who have voiced the oppressed in his songs without any attempt to form a resistance organization.
The biggest contribution of Bob Marley is the Rastafarian belief popularized throughout the world through songs and music played. If Marcus Garvey did not form a resistance organization, may not be rasta hair cultures worldwide as it is now. Culture that in fact belongs to the black that is often identified with the culture of the slaves are now actually appreciated by whites even copied it out, sold throughout the world as a commodity by the capitalists as profit. Just look at the dress, the kind of music is often sung the black, the black hair style now finally adopted by the whites who once felt that makes the world culture.
The history of identity awareness movement of blacks, who then bertemali closely with the presence of reggae music, began sowing in early 20th-century. Is Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a priest and Jamaican black activist, who threw the idea of "Africa for the African Nations ..." and called for the movement of repatriation (refoulement) black community outside of Africa. In 1914, Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Unia), socio-religious movement which was considered as a new identity consciousness movement for blacks.
In 1916-1922, Garvey left Jamaica to build Unia headquarters in Harlem, New York. It is said that until 1922, Unia has more than 7 million followers. Between the years 1928-1930 Garvey returned to Jamaica, and engage in the political struggle of the black and Garvey in 1929 predicted the coming of an African king who marked the liberation of blacks from the oppression of Babylon (the term for the white colonial government, referring to the scriptural story of the Babylon oppress the people of Israel). When Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned as king of Ethiopia in 1930, the title of HIM Haile Selassie I, the followers of the teachings of Garvey Ras Tafari regard it as a liberator. They also consider Ethiopia as a peaceful land of Zion, like a paradise-for blacks inside and outside Africa. Garvey's teachings were embodied into a new religion called Rastafari with Haile Selassie as a god-figure in her.
In April 1966, because of the threat of social conflict involving the Rasta, Jamaica's government to invite HIM Haile Selassie I visit to find penghayat Rastafari. He delivered the message to provide land in southern Ethiopia for the repatriation of Rasta. But Haile Selassie Rasta also stressed the need to free Jamaica from oppression and injustice and make the Rastafari way of life, before their exodus to Ethiopia.
Years that followed the credo of the movement continued to spread widely, ie, "Merging of humanity is his message, the music is the modus operandi, peace on earth as in heaven (Zion) is the goal, fight for rights is the way and eliminate all forms of physical and mental oppression is the essence struggle. "
When Bob Marley became a follower of Rastafari in 1967 and a year later followed the birth of reggae, then the modus operandi of the spread of the teachings of Rastafari was found: reggae!
