1968, Jamaican English (first in song title "Do the Reggay" by Toots & the Maytals), perhaps [OED, Barnhart] related to rege-rege "a quarrel, protest," literally "ragged clothes," variant of raga-raga, alteration and reduplication of English rag (n.).
例文
1. Bob Marley provided them with their first taste of Reggae music.
ボブ?マリーは彼らに初めてレゲエ音楽に触れさせた。
2.It placed reggae music firmly in the mainstream of world culture.
世界の主流文化の中でレゲエ音楽が不動の地位を占めている。
3. Reggae must be the only music that 's got its own country-Jamaica.