In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — In 2016, the cover of the Yellow Pages brought Jamaica to a standstill. For the Kingston and St. Andrews editions of the directory, three artists were commissioned to create ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Rastafarian group spent months making the weapons of a cultural crusade--1,200 brooms to symbolically whisk the sex and violence of American gangsta rap out of the pure “One Love ...

Dancehall legend Spragga Benz and media personality Patrice White are all set to join Ky-Mani Marley as ambassadors for the Jamaica Hi – 5k Reggae Run/Walk. The trio took their marks during a recent ...

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Ewart "U-Roy" Beckford, who transformed the Jamaican art of toasting, or deejaying, from a sound system phenomenon into a hit-making art form that deeply influenced generations of dancehall artists as ...

Born Chinsea Lin Lee in Mandeville, Jamaica, Shenseea is the product of a Jamaican mother and a Korean father. As a child, she would go back and forth between St. Elizabeth and Kingston to spend time ...

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johanna Taylor teaches Jamaican dancehall choreography. Taylor got her start by taking West African and Afro Caribbean dance ...

Grammy® Award-Nominated, chart-topping, global superstar Spice, is lighting up the Summer with the arrival of her highly anticipated third studio album, ‘Mirror 25’ which released on Friday, August 9, ...

As Jazz Fest kicks off its second weekend, one area of the Fair Grounds is offering festivalgoers a global experience without ...