a style of popular music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat, originating in Jamaica. Reggae evolved in the late 1960s from ska and other local variations on calypso and rhythm and blues, and became widely known in the 1970s through the work of Bob Marley; its lyrics are much influenced by Rastafarian ideas
雷盖(源于牙买加的流行音乐,20世纪60年代末由斯卡乐演变而成,通过鲍勃·马利等人的作品到70年代盛行,歌词受拉斯塔法里亚教的影响很深)。
"1960s: perhaps related to Jamaican English