ragga

See also: Ragga and raggá

English

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Etymology

Clipping of raggamuffin, variant of ragamuffin (“troublemaker”), influenced by reggae.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ragga (uncountable)

1. (music) A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling. [from 1980s]
   • 1993 August, David Eimer, “Reel to Reel”, in The Wire, number 114, →ISSN, page 52:

     Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks.

   • 2001 September 15, Christopher John Farley, “Music Goes Global”, in Time‎, →ISSN:

     The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild.

   • 2016, Linda Dailey Paulson, “Ragga”, in Dave DiMartino, editor, Music in the 20th Century, volume 1, Routledge, →ISBN, page 514:

     A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is]^[sic] a criminal morality.”

   • 2019, Wiley et al, “Boasty”:

     Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03

Derived terms

• Raggastani

See also

• raga

Anagrams

• Gagra

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɡ.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡɡa
• Hyphenation: ràg‧ga

Noun

ragga m (uncountable)

1. clipping of raggamuffin (“ragga”)

Further reading

• ragga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication