Bob Marley is the most well-known Reggae musician. He did many great things throughout his life. Bob Marley had messages in his song lyrics and did whatever it took for them to be heard. He also helped and inspired many of his fans, as well as his family. He was also one of the few people that helped start a new genre of music and a new band that sang it. Bob’s songs, and the story behind them, is what effected society. Bob Marley had a tough life but he still managed to become one of the most famous musicians ever. Bob Marley was an idol to many people because of the messages he expressed through his songs and how he did whatever it took to get those messages out, the fact that his songs helped people, and how he helped start a new genre of music.
Bob Marley was born with the name Nesta Robert Marley on February 6, 1945 in the small town of Rhoden Hall, St. Ann, Jamaica. (Paprocki 8) It is located in the north-central part of Jamaica. Bob’s religion was Rastafarian. Rastafarianism is a religion that is based on the beliefs of people, love, and unity. (Paprocki 3) Bob didn’t really know his father very well and lived with his mother most of his early childhood. When Bob was about 6 years old, he went to live with a family friend, an old, white woman named Mrs. Grey, in Kingston. (Paprocki 19, 20) Bob lived with Mrs. Grey for about one whole year. During this year, he would help her with anything that she needed help with. After that, he went back to St. Ann to live with his mother again. Years later, when Bob was around the age of 14, he dropped out of school. (Paprocki 30) Around that time is when he also started to fall in love with music and began his own music career. He helped create, and was a part of, a band called the Wa...
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...ds of things. Bob got a lot of those messages out throughout the world. By doing this, he inspired his fans. He even inspired his family. Bob helped create Reggae and was one of the first to start a band that sang Reggae. Bob Marley was the one that made Reggae recognized and popular.
Bob Marley was an extraordinary person who really did help many people in all sorts of ways. Whether it was the stories behind the songs or just the things that he went to that people can relate to. That’s just one of the many examples of how he motivated so many of his fans. He is a legendary musician that nobody will ever forget. Even to this day, his records continue to sell millions of copies. If he were still alive today, he would probably be very thankful for all of the appreciation his fans have for him. He will go down in history as one of the fathers of modern Reggae music.
Well, he shows you do not have to be the smartest person to be successful and that never to give up on what you’re after. For example, he puts parts of his personal life into his music to show that just because he has fame and fortune that doesn’t mean he’s like any other human being. He sings and raps about love, passion, and loss. For one in his song “Hotline Bling” from his album “Views,” shows a loss of a friend, or maybe a lover and how things change and one you stop trying to make the relationship work, but turns out into just being “you used to.”
Even though Marley passed in 1981 his songs of love, peace and protest still remain popular. The American entertainment media brand, Billboard, posted the top ten greatest protest songs by Bob Marley. We are going to look at five of them; “Simmer Down”, “Get up, Stand up”, “I Shot the Sherriff”, “Concrete Jungle”, and “Redemption Song”.
The impact of Mob Marley’s songs remains great examples of the way Rastafarian ideologies and beliefs have been capable of breaking down barriers that had at one time separated a society from a culturally established religion. His song “Smile Jamaica” was immensely moving because it was created for a concert to bring people together no matter the political party they represented. Jammin’ was also made for the same purpose but was more in depth about how political violence was causing division and tension amongst society. Bob Marley use proverbs and Jamaican folklore in his song “Rat Race” to describe political corruption. In addition his song, Get up, Stand up was made to empower people to make peace and stand up for their rights. All together Rasta’s have demonstrated a successful revolution by resisting the dominant ideas and beliefs.
He was a very instrumental person in the Pan-African movement. He was a founder of the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). However, just because he was a great man for the African American community doesn’t mean he was loved and appreciated by everyone. He was hated by white Americans in the United States because he demanded for equal rights and justice amongst African Americans and he demanded that Africa be free from colonialism. Because he was hated and hunted down in the United States, he fled to Ghana where he began his own movements. As a result of him creating his own movements, the 5 Pan-African Congresses were birthed. The role he played in the Pan-African movement was seen as a platform for many other African leaders such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta and Hastings Banda.
Ser Elton John has been one of the most iconic and successful British pop stars since the 1970’s. His music is based from his own life experiences as well as those of his country and of his time. Elton John is known for his passion and vivacity for his career, his fortitude to fight AIDS, his homosexuality and his importance to the evolution of the British and the American pop/rock genre.
The way he used nature in his everyday life and he didn't need much to keep him happy. He could let others see the world through his nonconformist ways through song. He was just happy to be living the life he was given without a worry in the world. That's why I think Bob Marley fits into the Transcendental concepts of nonconformity, simplified Life, and importance of nature. Although he started off Christian I think Rastafarian made him into the man he was. I can't imagine what kind of things he would've done if he didn't die at such an early age can
King, Stephen and Richard Jensen."Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song': the rhetoric of reggae and Rastafari."Journal of Popular Culture. 29.3 (1995): 17-37.
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...uality, nature, anti-materialism and self-reliance. His music was purposed towards encouraging people to believe in their choices and decisions rather than believing in the teachings of societal institutions. Bob Marley criticized religion is an institution which instead of uniting people ends up separating them. He also warns people not to suffer in the name of going to even and live an afterlife. Rather, they should live in heaven on earth that is, they should be happy in their lives. Bob Marley’s song corresponds to transcendentalist who believed that people should not conform to the normal life patterns. Transcendentalists, just like Bob Marley, believed that one derives happiness from what he/she believes is right no matter what people think or the consequences. When one stands up for his/her rights, he/she does not follow what has been stipulated or instructed.
In 1959 he left for college, but instead of consentrating on his studies he devoted himself to his music. He sang wherever he could, his performance style, a nasal tone with annunciation problems sometimes drew applause while other times critisism, yet this would later became his trademark sound. It was also around this time when he began performing with a guitar and harmonica. It was during his performing days in Dinkytown that the young Bob Zimmerman first began using Bob Dylan as his stage name. No clear reason can be assertained for the choice of Dylan. Whatever its source, the name gave him a public image distinct from his Jewish heritage, enhancing his already growing career.
Bob Marley expresses his belief that music is a message and route to freedom in the song “Trench town.”
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a powerful black revolutionary and race leader who influenced a great many people in his time and continues to do so through reggae music. Many of Marcus Garvey's lessons and ideals have found a voice in the lyrics of conscious reggae musicians past and present. From internationally famous musicians such as Bob Marley and Burning Spear, to the music and words of The Rastafari Elders, reggae musicians have found inspiration in Marcus Garvey.
Born February 45th. In Nine Mile, Jamaica, Bob Marley would advance to touch that hearts of many people. Although he was teased during his childhood for being of mixed race heritage, he still managed to change people lives with his leadership and activism as an adult. Bob Marley was not only a leader when it came to activism. He was also a leader for emerging music. He often communicated politics and social issues through his lyrics. Rather than conforming to the demands of the music industry, he created his own unique and authentic style of music. Bob Marley shared fundamental elements of music in his work that is now found in the music genres of today.
Robert Nesta Marley, better known as Bob Marley, was born on February 6, 1945 in Jamaica to a British naval officer, Norman Marley and a Jamaican woman, Cedellar Booker (Bob, Encyclopedia of World Biography). Marley completed his education at a private school in Kington, Jamaica (Sims, 6). While growing up, Marley showed a great amount of interest in music, “By 1959 Marley was taking singing lessons, honing his guitar skills, and performing in local talent shows” (Bob, St.
Rastafari is a theology based upon the writings of Marcus Garvey a Jamaican social activist. The movement’s global spread from Jamaica across the world has been strongly influenced by Bob Marley and closely associated with reggae. Many of Marley’s songs captured the essence of Rastafari religion and its social and political beliefs. (bbc.co.uk, 2014)