Reggae has been added to a list of international cultural treasures which the United Nations has deemed worthy of protecting and promoting.
The protected list began in 2008 and grew out of the UN's convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in 2003.
The music, which grew out of Jamaica in the 1960s thanks to artists like Peter Tosh and Bob Marley, was added to the collection due to its "intangible cultural heritage."