reggae

music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s
Intangible music_genre Q9794
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reggae

Summary

reggae is a music genre[1]. reggae ranks in the top 2% of music_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,372 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • reggae's image is recorded as Buju Banton.jpg[3].
  • reggae's instance of is recorded as music genre[4].
  • reggae's audio is recorded as Stealth Groover (ISRC USUAN1100690).mp3[5].
  • reggae's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85112348[6].
  • reggae's subclass of is recorded as music of Jamaica[7].
  • reggae's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01024473[8].
  • reggae's Commons category is recorded as Reggae[9].
  • reggae's country of origin is recorded as Jamaica[10].
  • reggae's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 16858[11].
  • +1961-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of reggae[12].
  • reggae's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06cqb[13].
  • reggae's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph224432[14].
  • reggae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Reggae[15].
  • reggae's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01398[16].
  • reggae's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/01398[17].
  • reggae's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/01398[18].
  • reggae's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 781.646[19].
  • reggae's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Reggae music[20].
  • reggae's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0138035[21].
  • reggae's described by source is recorded as DDEX AVS Data Dictionary Version 1[22].
  • reggae's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000290908[23].
  • reggae's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/reggae[24].
  • reggae's has characteristic is recorded as off-beat[25].
  • reggae's equivalent class is recorded as http://service.ddex.net/dd/DD-AVS-001/dd/ddex_Reggae[26].
  • reggae's GTAA ID is recorded as 263093[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for reggae include samba reggae[28], a music genre[29], founded in 1987[30] and Ostróda Reggae Festival[31], a music festival[32], in Poland[33], founded in 2001[34].

Why It Matters

reggae ranks in the top 2% of music_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,372 views/month).[2] reggae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] reggae is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for reggae include samba reggae[28], a music genre[29], founded in 1987[30] and Ostróda Reggae Festival[31], a music festival[32], in Poland[33], founded in 2001[34].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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