Rocksteady - The Roots of Reggae

Film Information:
Year:

2009

Rocksteady - The Roots of Reggae

Países:

  

Director:

Stascha Bader

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

94 min

Cast:

  • Wilburn “Stranger” Cole, Derrick Morgan, Ken Boothe, Hopeton Lewis, Marcia Griffiths

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Stascha Bader
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Piotr Jaxa
  • MONTAJE: Teresa De Luca,
  • Mathieu Grondin
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Valentin Greutert, Betty Palik

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Synopsis

Before Bob Marley’s figure helped that music genre known as reggae rocket to world wide popularity, in Jamaica there already was a musical style called “rocksteady”. In the late 1960’s, this movement changed Jamaican music forever with its joyful and simple decision of smoothing down the frenetic rhythms of ska, and provoked a true sensual and spiritual revolution among the people of the island. The film tells the story of the reunion that took place forty years after in which the most important figures from the golden age of rocksteady (like Hopeton Lewis, who was barely 16 years old when he wrote “Take It Easy”, considered to be the first rocksteady song) gathered to record an album. Among the many artists is also Rita Marley, who tenderly recalls the legend she was married to for a quarter of a century.

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