Editing Ragga (section)

==Origins==
Ragga originated in [[Jamaica]] during the 1980s, at the same time that [[electronic dance music]]'s popularity was increasing globally. Ragga spread to Europe, North America, and Africa, eventually spreading to Japan, India, and the rest of the world. Ragga heavily influenced [[oldschool jungle|early jungle music]], and also spawned the [[wikt:syncretistic|syncretistic]]
[[bhangragga]] style when fused with [[Bhangra (music)|bhangra]]. In the 1990s, ragga and [[breakcore]] music fused, creating a style known as [[raggacore]].

The term "raggamuffin" is an intentional misspelling of "[[wikt:ragamuffin|ragamuffin]]", a word that entered the [[Jamaican Patois]] lexicon after the [[British Empire]] [[Colonialism|colonized]] Jamaica in the 17th century.{{fact|date=October 2023}} Despite the British colonialists' pejorative application of the term, Jamaican youth [[Reappropriation|appropriated]] it as an [[ingroup]] designation. The term "raggamuffin music" describes the [[music of Jamaica]]'s "ghetto dwellers".