ly, Jamaica came to represent all of the injustices perpetuated by whites against non-whites, by the First World against the Third World, by colonizers against the colonized. Regg', and Marley, became the voice of that particular moment in history, the time when people (and especially those of the African diaspora) who had been for centuries oppressed became the masters of their own lives and fate.
Scholars disagree over the exact evolution of regg', but most agree that it had its roots in ska, an earlier and in musicological if not in political or cultural terms similar style of music. Like ska, regg' as a musical form is defined by a heavy four-beat rhythm. This rhythm is created by two different instruments, varying from musician to musician and from song to song:
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