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12 Okt 2009

Rastaman dan Rastafarian

persepsi yang harus diluruskan adalah tak semua musisi Reggae itu adalah Rastafarian...
karena dalam segi musik, Reggae itu sebatas seni...
tetapi itu tergantung sang seniman cara membawa musik Reggae bagaiman,
hanya sebagai musik penghibur atau musik yang bisa membuat perubahan ?
Reggae is Reggae, Rasta is Rasta...
Rasta adalah revolusioner, mempunyai misi/visi tertentu...
belum tentu seorang Dreadlock adalah Rasta...
Rasta is livity, Rasta adalah jalan hidup... tidak bisa dipelajari, hanya bisa dirasakan & dijalankan.
Rastaman seorang yang memiliki rasa spiritual yang tinggi kokoh (bukan religius)...
bersih dari prilaku Babylon, rendah hati...
dan belajar dari sang Raja untuk mengahapuskan ketidakadilan, kebodohan,kekerasan,rasisme,perang...
n raja itu adalah Yang Mulia Haile Selassie Pertama,
beliau juga sahabat Bung Karno, satu jalan tuk menghancurkan imperiailisme & neo-kololianisme...

kata "Rastafar I " adalah nama lahir Haile Selassie,
Ras : gelar bangsawan Etiopia yang setara dengan Raden...
Tafar I artinya pencipta...
Ras Tafar I ... Panglima pencipta kedamaian

yah... semoga bisa membuka wawasan brother.

Bless-ed Love & Guidance.

Selassie- I

-H.E. Ras Muhamad -

13 Sep 2009

Reggae music expressing Rasta doctrine

The first reggae single that sang about Rastafari and reached Number 1 in the Jamaican charts was Bongo Man by Little Roy in 1969.[28] Early Rasta reggae musicians (besides Marley) whose music expresses Rastafari doctrine well are Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer (in Blackheart Man), Prince Far I, Linval Thompson, Ijahman Levi (especially the first 4 albums), Misty-in-Roots (Live), The Congos (Heart of the Congos), The Rastafarians, The Abyssinians, Culture, Big Youth, and Ras Michael And The Sons Of Negus. The Jamaican jazz percussionist Count Ossie, who had played on a number of ska and reggae recordings, recorded albums with themes relating to Rasta history, doctrine, and culture.
Rastafari doctrine as developed in the '80s was further expressed musically by a number of other prominent artists, such as Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, Third World, The Gladiators, Black Uhuru, Aswad, and Israel Vibration. Rastafari ideas have spread beyond the Jamaican community to other countries including Russia, where artists such as Jah Division write songs about Jah. Afro-American hardcore punk band Bad Brains are notable followers of the Rastafari movement and have written songs ("I Against I", etc.) that promote the doctrine.
In the 21st century, Rastafari sentiments are spread through roots reggae and dancehall, subgroups of reggae music, with many of their most important proponents promoting the Rastafari religion, such as Capleton, Sizzla, Anthony B, Barrington Levy, Turbulence, Jah Mason, Pressure, Midnite, Natural Black, Daweh Congo, Luciano, Cocoa Tea, or Richie Spice. Several of these acts have gained mainstream success and frequently appear on the popular music charts. Most recently artists such as Damian Marley (son of Bob Marley) have blended hip-hop with reggae to re-energize classic Rastafari issues such as social injustice, revolution and the honour and responsibility of parenthood using contemporary musical style.

Berlin-based dub techno label "Basic Channel" has subsidiary labels called "Rhythm & Sound" and "Burial Mix" whose lyrics strongly focus on many aspects of Rastafari culture and ideology, including the acceptance of Haile Selassie I. Notable tracks include "Jah Rule", "Mash Down Babylon", "We Be Troddin'", and "See Mi Yah".

Jamaican reggae artist Jah Cure also praises Jah and the Rastafari movement in many of his songs, as do two SinĂ©ad O'Connor rastafari/reggae CDs – "Throw Down Your Arms" and "Theology".

There are several Jamaican films that are paramount to the history of Rastafari, such as Rockers, The Harder They Come, Land of Look Behind and Countryman.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

11 Sep 2009

Marcus Garvey

Rastas see Marcus Mosiah Garvey as a prophet, with his philosophy fundamentally shaping the movement, and with many of the early Rastas having started out as Garveyites. He is often seen as a second John the Baptist. One of the most famous prophecies attributed to him involving the coronation of Haile Selassie I was the 1927 pronouncement "Look to Africa, for there a king shall be crowned," although an associate of Garvey's, James Morris Webb, had made very similar public statements as early as 1921.[29][30] Marcus Garvey promoted Black Nationalism, black separatism, and Pan-Africanism: the belief that all black people of the world should join in brotherhood and work to decolonise the continent of Africa — then still controlled by the white colonialist powers.
He promoted his cause of black pride throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and was particularly successful and influential among lower-class blacks in Jamaica and in rural communities. Although his ideas have been hugely influential in the development of Rastafari culture, Garvey never identified himself with the movement, and even wrote an article critical of Haile Selassie for leaving Ethiopia at the time of the Fascist occupation.[31] In addition, his Universal Negro Improvement Association disagreed with Leonard Howell over Howell's teaching that Haile Selassie was the Messiah.[31] Rastafari nonetheless may be seen as an extension of Garveyism. In early Rasta folklore, it is the Black Star Liner (actually a shipping company bought by Garvey to encourage repatriation to Liberia) that takes them home to Africa.Ye
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