Bob Marley's mission through reggae

Bob Marley's music is resonant with the true Jamaican Spirit and many people will remember him for providing them with their first taste of Reggae music. He used a type of West Indian popular music with a very strong beat to voice concern that his people (blacks) were helplessly silent about the oppression by Americans.
His undisguised but emphatic declaration that he descended from the African slaves who were brought to America, imbued the people with admiration for his music and the message it conveyed. In brief, he promoted a populist approach to Reggae music and through his music he succeeded in re-kindling tension in black people to struggle for their rights. Through his music he urged the black Africans in Jamaica and America to mount a major struggle for their existence, rights and self-respect.
Bob Marley was a passionate believer in the idealized notion that an artist is born to serve his people and he correctly identified his responsibilities for the black Africans still being forced into varied types of salve labour throughout the world. Therefore he was a populist musician in the literal sense of the world. Notably, Bob Marley and Victor Hara were two massive figures of international fame who endeavoured to protect the rights of the people they represented through the universal art of music.

His vision

Bob Marley was exposed to the first glimpses of class and colour discrimination at Kingston where he managed to recognise the higher social classes and the sufferings of people in slums. He was suddenly confronted with the big question as to how he should fight for the rights of the black people who were not sufficiently aware of their economy lifestyle, or their rights.
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