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Originally Posted by Yasa
With regards to Bob Marley, it wasn't so much his music as his message. He was heavy into civil rights and that's what his legacy is about.
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Virtually all Jamaican music of that era was about civil rights, it was/is a hallmark of the roots era and Jamaican music in general pre dancehall.
Peter Tosh is in many ways more revered on the Island as he was damn near killed by the police after using his music to shame the islands politicians.
One of my favorites from the era, the Cool Ruler, Gregory Issacs and Babylon Too Rough, if you listen carefully you can hear him lift parts of the chorus from Desmond Deckers '007 (shanty town)' as a tribute Deckers 1960's song about how hard it was for the rightous to live in a Babylon.