Dreadlocks in L.A. by Louie Escobar. In Jamaica the term dreadlocks was first recorded in the 1950s as a derogatory term when the “Young Black Faith”, an early sect of the Rastafari which began among the marginalized poor of Jamaica in the 1930s, ceased to copy the particular hair style of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and began to wear locks instead. It was said that they looked ‘dreadful’ with their locks, which gave birth to the modern name ‘dreadlocks’ for this ancient style. Different theories exist about the origin of Rastalocks.
Most Rastafari explain Rastalocks with one of the three Nazarite vows, in the Book of Numbers, the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch.
The rise in popularity of reggae music in the 1970s and the worldwide fame of singer and songwriter Bob Marley prompted an interest in locks internationally. The anti-establishment philosophy of Rastafari, echoed in much of the reggae of the time, had a particular resonance for left-leaning youth of all ethnicities — especially and primarily among Black-Americans and other Blacks, but among counterculture whites as well.(wikipedia)
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