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But it takes a Jamaican to get every muscle involved when this unique combina- tion of folk, rock, soul, blues and revival starts playing, Ttlat's Lord Brynner leading the band at his Montego Bay nightclub, the "Big Bamboo".` Jamaican "Reggae" is beat -sound -Glance There is a new music coming out of Jamaica.. It belongs to to- day; it is fresh and original and away from the straw -hatted combo perpetually singing "All Day, All Night, Marianne". There's still plenty of that around, of course, but if you go to Jamaica you are certain to be surrounded by this new sound called "Reggae". Nobody knows where the name came frons. Calypso began among south Caribbean islanders in the '30's, as a kind of living newspaper, discussing the topics of the day in rhythmic and often ribald terms. The steel band fol- lowed during World War II. Both styles were spread around the islands' and became standard routines mostly put on for tourists. But Reggae (pro- nounced 'REG - gay) surfaced in the 1960's as a purely Jamaican combination with something of folk, rock, soul, blues and revi- val. Usually these are lyrics' that tell a story and protest against social conditions. As in every 'de- veloping country the world over, the young people of Jamaica were leaving the land and the old ways and were crowding into cities at home ., and abroad in quest of jobs and opportunities that for the most part weren't there. The protest songs inevi- tably followed. However, it is not true—as some music critics and writers have asserted -that the more af- fluent people of Jamaica disap- prove of Reggae. The scion of a leading banana planter dynasty was the first to introduce the beat • to England, and a Jamaican cabinet minister exported it to the United States. It was called "Ska" the,, for the upbeat of the guitar ("um-ska, um-ska"). Ja- maicans living in Britain also called it "Blue Beat" and "Rock Steady": In 1968 somebody started calling it Reggae and it caught on. Like Jazz, Reggae may have begun in the lower depths, but it became acceptable when the sheer virtuosity and at- tractiveness of the music won out. Today, everybody in Jamai- ca --except, perhaps, those over 9o—Glances to the Reggae beat in hotels, discotheques, on the beaches and any place that's handy. When the thing kicks off, it's irresistible. Even the ever-present Calypso trio. with guitar, rhumba box and maracas, will play a Reggae at the slightest encouragement, though the authentic sound re- quires plenty of bass and percus- sioh and often adds an organ. Jamaicans dance it with every muscle involved. ut a foreigner can. quickly achieve a present- able imitation if he listens closely to the beat. which former Beatle Paul McCartney describes as "the whole beat flat on its back". One writer describes the effect as "half floating, half plodding". Another talks about its "excite- ment, spirit and enthusiasm." Johnny Nash, an American credited with pushing Reggae up into the top ten of U.S. charts with his single., "I Can See Clearly Now". says, "I don't call it Reggae. It's Jamaican music. it's just a feeling." A number of other foreign superstars have not only identi- fied Regtae as a new pipeline, but have gone to Jamaica to re- cord their own versions. Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones took over the entire Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston while making their new alburri. After his hit with "Mother, grid . Child Rei union", classified as Reggae, Paul Simon came to Jamaica for more. Paul McCartney and Elton John have done it. The -recording studios of Kingst n are fast be- coming known as the "Nashville of the Caribbean." Even Harry °Belafonte is producting a Reggae album. • All this international attentipn by, the music biggies haslarmd those who predict that as 'soon as Reggae becomes a major craze in North America (it already is. in Britain) it will lose its inherent island quality and basic . inno- cence. Few admirers of the beat and the sometimes incomprehen- sible (to outsiders) lyrics are aware that the music is based in Jamaica's incorruptible religious sect, the Rastafarians. The true Rasta man believes he belongsin Aftiga.,Be„also,beljeves in, peace. and love. It was inevitable , that the protest music created by Rastas, with their wild, tangled locks and knit wool caps, would spread to the musically talented youth of the island, of which Ja- maica is blessed with plenty. Reggae could continue to de- velop as pure Jamaican whether outsiders take it up or not. Until -recently, the best known Jamai- can stars have been Desmond Dekker, the Maytals, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Tomorrow's Children, Scotty and the Melo- dians, along with Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rasta- fari and a young Kingston hero called Big Youth. For some years, the Big Daddy of ;hem all has been Byron Lee and the Dra- gonaires, whose bandstand polish has taken the aggregation for world tours and' appearances at the most official of Jamaican functions. A young singer named Jimmy Cliff was in the troupe Byron Lee brought to the New York World's Fair in 1964 when the first Ska star, Millie Small, made her American debut. Expatriate Ja- maicans 'filled the fairgrounds' Singer Bowl that night and joy- ously danced it away. But Ska didn't make much of a dent in American musical conscious°- ness. Jimmy Cliff returned to Ja- maica and to his anonymous composing and singing with groups until he was suddenly cast in 1971 as star of the island's first all -Jamaican movie, "The Hard- er They Come", Not only has the film received wide North American and Euro- pean acclaim—and done well at the box office -it explains the Reggae scene to the uninitiated in vividly dramatic and often funny terms. On the track are several Reggaes by Jimmy Cliff, who might well be re-enacting part of his own story if the script weren't actually based on an outlaw of the '50's. \The film's sound track re- cording is .a current best' seller: 'Cause sure as the ..sun will shine I'm gonna get my . share now, what's. mine, Then, the harder they come, the harder they fall, One and all." Jamaican record labels such as Dynamic, Island, and, in the .U.S., Mango, are guides to col- lectors eager to 'immerse them- selves in the Reggae sound. But of course, the best way is to go to Jamaica and plunge right in. The beat and sound are there, every- where, live and recorded, big band and little combo. If you come .away without having at least tried to dance it, you will have missed experiencing Ja- maica like it is today. �\ Those job titles they are a-changi n' The U.S. Census Bureau has revised 52 of the 441 job ti- tles in its Occupational Classi- fication System, -replacing "man" with "worker" or "op- erator" in most cases, in or- der to eliminate sex discrimi- nation. Such titles as laundress or stewardess are changed to launderer and flight attend- ant, chambermaids and maids to lodging quarters cleaners and busboys to' wait- ers' assistants. ri5 An elderly neighbor of mh who makes the odd dollar doing fall butel erings up our way has made quite a reputation for him- self* im-self` as a weather prophet. His. methods, though not too clearly ;understood by most Of us who watch, require nothing more than an educated peek into the interior plumbing of a deceased pig. By a - simple reading of the size and shape ofihe animal's spleen, and the nature of the fat about its "lights", our butcher. friend will confidently predict whether the` winter is going to be long or short, white or green. Apparently all of the pigs unfortunate enough to be his customers must be in com- plete agreement about the kind of weather whichis to survive them because regardless of how ;many butchered pigs he studies, our old friend has never been known to change his mind once it is made up. I am sure that he has no idea however, of how very ancient his kind of wizardry really is. You may recall that Shakespeare, in trying to make poetry out of the last hours of Julius Caesar, has the court soothsayers make a special trip to the slaugh • ter special trip to the slaughter house to see whether or not it ,is the Capitol that day. And when Caesar was informed that the animal sacrificed was found to have no heart, he was so shaken that he nearly stayed home with ' his wife. Which would have been an irreparable loss to literature because Shakespeare couldn't have written his play then. How very strange that in this age of the split atom and the sput- niks and all of the other marvels of modern enlightenment, these colorful old superstitions should still persist. Sometimes science even seems to co-operate with superstition. There is, for in- stance, in the Montreal bus station, one of these ultra -clever coin machines which, when you drop your dime m the tiungry slot, triggers the very latest . in electronic : gadgetry, and then when the unseen ' wheels stop whirring, lights begin to flash in the eyes of a plaster gypsy •woman sitting on top of all this science. Meaning that your -horo- scope is now ready and you'll find it in the little trough to the lower right. Seems to me though, that we farmers have more superstitions than most to get rid of. And thinking about this, I can't help but smile at a certain old lady of my acquaintance who has long been feuding with me about how little today's farmer seems to know about the nature of things. compared to what farm folks all knew when she was a girl. And one day, when the word .got around to her that I had a cow whose pregnancy was in some doubt, she took it upon her busy self to call me up. "Just happened to hear that you've got a cow down there and you don't know whether she's bred or not!" There was no use of my deny- ing it. She had the story in all of its details no doubt. "Well now," she asked, "how could you be so stupid and still call yourself a farmer? Anybody with a grain of gumption ought to know how to tell whether a cow's in calf or not!" "And how's that, Mrs. Butter - ford?" I asked meekly. "Why milk her, of course. And then use the milk in your tea ! If the milk falls straight down to the -4.444„, ; ;4" T. 42, .r. . , „, , 4:4‘,7 1111 111.11M 10 III POI ill" ill ■w» r► • 11/111$ttF77 i;i:,1111111h1" JAMAICA'S FIRST CAPITAL under Spanish rule was Santiago de las Vega, later dubbed "Spanish Town" by the conquering British. Today, Spanish Town Square looks very much as it did in the 18th and 19Th centuries. Old King's House is the building at the right where an archeological dig is turning up some of Jamaica's (vivid early history. bottom of the cup, then you can bet on it that she's bred, .d if it just kind of Boats around on tae,' top, flightly like, 1111 you stir it in, then she's empty. It's just,, as. sin►pie as that! Now tell me, how come ° you didn't know that any- how?" "Areyou sure the cow knows it, Mrs. Butterford?" I asked. "Now loop here!" carie the sharp reply, "I don't expect no pay for trying to help you out. I'm just trying to tell you something you ought to have learned at your mother's knee, Why, when I. was a girl living up in the Ottawa Val- ley„every farmer and his brother knew this way of telling when a cow was in calf!” "And you're positive that it will work every time, Mrs, Butterford?" I asked. "What if my cow is, only slightly preg- nant?" Mrs. Butterford's faith in such things is the kind which l sup- posed to move mountains, but she could feel that I was not moved. "No," she. said, "just because you can't read it in a book some- wheres, you won't believe it! That's the trouble with you farmers today.' You're always reading books and paying veter- inaries, and if you can't read it or pay for it, you won't hale none of it!" "Well, 1111rs. Butterford,", I said, thinking it was perhps time to soften the battle a bit, "science is a great thing. Every. farmer's got\ to be a scientist today, you know." 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