o Style features and general details:Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly represents a particular music style that developed out of the earlier genres ska. Stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues (R&B), jazz, African, and Latin American music, as well as other genres. One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms; disconnected chords played by a guitar or piano (or both).