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As the original Arawak Indians all died Jamaican culture represents a rich blend of cultures that have come to the island. The native

The best know side of Jamaican culture is reggae music, and the Rastafarians who are recognised all over the world for playing what is a distinctively syncopated style that arose from another jamaican sopund, ska.. Bob Marley, from Kingston, is doubtlessly the best known performer of this style.

Derek Walcott, a Nobel prize laureate, attended college in Jamaica. Other significant writers from the island include Claude McKay and Louis Simpson. Plays and works in jamaican English, or patois, attract special attention. Louise Bennett, Andrew Salkey and Michael Smith have contributed to this phenomenon by writing works in patois.

See also

For more information on Jamaican music, see Music of Jamaica

For more information on the National Gallery of Jamaica, see National Gallery of Jamaica

For more information on Rastafarianism, see Rastafarianism

For more inofrmation on the patois, see Jamaican English

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