There is no reason I excluded Reggae in particular. It is a form of Popular music. I couldn’t go into every genre. I was just trying to prove that musicality and music literacy aren’t necessarily linked and that the dynamic hasn’t really changed historically. The industry is filled with people who haven’t really been formally musically trained and the same is true with Reggae and the svengali’s Of Reggae Chris Blackwell and Coxsonne Dodd.

    Sheldon Rocha Leal, PhD

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    Music Academic, musician, songwriter and Director of Culture at a private school in South Africa.