Status Updates From This is Reggae Music

Ok, this has been on a back burner for a while. Part of the problem is that I haven't been Apple to read it without Spotify open—every time the author mentions an artist, group, song, I name sure to add it to my Reggae+ playlist. Kinda slows down the reading. So, for here on out, I'm reading without Spotify open. I'll highlight stuff I want to add.

"...musically, the whole point of reggae is its inherent pointlessness. To truly plug this new style into the music of the Dark Continent, reggae had to shuck off the very Western notion of melody as the defining clause. It needed to become apparently randomly rhythmic, out of which its own concept of tunefulness would emerge—one that, to an outsider, seems to exist for no other reason than self-celebration."

On hiatus while I escape into fantasy, but this is a darn good book.