For the percussion rhythm used in reggaeton, see Dembow beat. For the Dominican music genre, see Dominican dembow.
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"Dem Bow"
Song by Shabba Ranks
from the album Just Reality
Released
1990
Genre
Reggae, dancehall
Length
3:36
Label
VP Records
Songwriter(s)
Steely & Clevie
Producer(s)
Bobby Digital
"Dem Bow" is a song performed by Jamaican reggae artist Shabba Ranks,[1] produced by Bobby Digital.[2] This song uses the "Ku-Klung-Klung"/"Poco Man Jam" riddim (based on the title of the 1990 Gregory Peck and Red Dragon song) created by Jamaican producers Steely & Clevie in the late 1980s. The lyrics are anti-imperialist (the title is Jamaican patois for "they bow," with Ranks disparaging people who do so) and also anti-homosexual, as Ranks compares those who perform sodomy to those who submit to colonialism.[3]
Elements of the song's riddim have been incorporated into over 80% of all reggaeton productions.[4] Evidently, "Dem Bow" has shaped and informed transnational flows and shifts within the genre over time. Reggaeton articulates a particular “audible thread” that weaves together various flows (and waves) of music, people, and ideologies.[4] In examining this musical evolution, aspects of race, class, and culture are inextricably linked to sociocultural elements surrounding the genre. In harnessing "Dem Bow" as a point of centrality, this song speaks to various patterns of migration, commercialization, branding, and reforming within the context of reggaeton.
^"Shabba Ranks: Dem Bow". Allmusic. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
^Wayne, Marshall (2008). Dem Bow: Translation and Transnation in Reggaeton(PDF).
^Mota, Jennifer (2019-01-28). "Recognizing Dominican Dembow: From Jamaica to El Alfa". People en Español. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
^ abMarshall, Wayne (2008). "Dem Bow, Dembow, Dembo: Translation and Transnation in Reggaeton". Lied und Populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture. 53: 131–151. JSTOR 20685604.
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