reggae

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n. 雷盖

发音

其它 /ˈɹɛɡeɪ/
US /ˈɹɛɡeɪ/

别名

reggay

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies.

    雷吉乐

    雷鬼乐

    雷盖乐

    瑞格乐

    不可数 音乐

    Near-synonym: (earlier) bluebeat

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

popular music

相关短语

reggae rock reggae fusion rockers reggae roots reggae cod reggae

词源

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Compare ragtime. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 Maytals song “Do the Reggay”.

来源：wiktionary