Sometime during the Twentieth century, a musician, born somewhere in Alabama as Herman Poole Blount, rounded up his outlook of the World, or more precisely at the Universe, life, and music, and found in himself that he is actually Sun Ra.
It's hard to point to any musical genre that's originated outside of the hubs of modern pop culture that's had such a lasting effect on modern music as Reggae. In many ways, ‘pure’ Reggae, and currently even more so, dub, is a mash up of influences turned into a very specific individual genre, that is, in turn, influencing practically everything else around it.