Different musical styles tend to emerge from different social groups. ____________ (1) is a good way to chart the cultural contacts between groups. Reggae’s roots can be traced to West Africa. In the seventeenth century, British colonialists enslaved a large number of West Africans and brought them to work in the West Indies. The British prevented the slaves from playing traditional African music ___________ (2) that it would serve as a rallying cry for revolt. But the drumming of one group, the Burru, was openly tolerated because it helped meter the pace of work. Slavery was finally abolished in Jamaica in 1834. Still, the tradition of Burru drumming continued, __________ (3) many Burru men migrated from rural areas to Kinston. It was here that a new religious cult began to emerge – one that it _________ (4) crucial to the development of reggae. in 1930, Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. A number of people in the West Indies __________ (5) that he was a god who would lead the oppressed of Africa to freedom. One of Selassie’s names was ‘Prince RasTafari’ and those who worshipped him called themselves ‘Rastafarians’. The Rastafarian cult soon merged with the Burru. In the 1950s, West Indian musicians began mixing Rastafarian rhythms with American music. These combinations eventually developed into reggae. Many reggae artists, such as Bob Marley, became commercial successes, and by 1970s people the world over ____________ (
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