Reggae

[The Emperor]

Wait, don't move the topic!!

I was having a discussion in another forum, and now i'm curious, is there any modern composer who had incorporated some reggae influences into his pieces?
That would be a weird mix, but i'm curious eheh

[jochanaan]

I don't know of any, but I agree with you that it'd be a fun mix.

[locrian]

Gordon Sumner. 

What about him?

[Montpellier]

You might also consider Milhaud's Creation du Monde.   

A few composers have imported Caribbean 'festival' music into classical - Jamaican Rumba and the other piece I quoted for instance - but not reggae as you know it today.   Correct me if I'm wrong.   

Several styles of reggae have evolved (almost to the extent of having its own classical era if you trace it right back); most depend on electric instruments that can't be simulated well with acoustic ones - so the components don't transport easily to an orchestra. 

  

[Montpellier]

Ha!  Would you honestly call that reggae?   It has a sort of rock/bluesy beat but reggae? 
Nice try but Ravel's Bolero in 3/4 doesn't lend itself.   He'd have better luck underpinning, say, Chopin's Study Op 10 No 3 or Mozart's Sonata in C with a simple bluebeat. 

I remember a Bach Minuet turned into the "Lover's Concerto" that appeared in a reggae-d version on the Trojan album "Red Red Wine" but that was a long time ago.

However, I don't think that prostituting a "classical" work by dubbing it over a pop beat (or even a worthy reggae one) constitutes composers incorporating reggae into their compositions. 

Now, I shall believe in Zappa's transformational skills when I hear him do the Rite of Spring to a skank.