Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who's unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his ...

In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

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 ...

The history of Jamaican pop music has been lost on the American market, probably because it never had a champion—someone to organize an engaging history, discography or documentary. The same is true ...

“I have a dislike for politicians as they’re not truthful people. It’s the nature of politics that you cannot be straight, you have to lie and cheat,” said the reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who died on ...

Stating the obvious: Music has always been in Skip Marley's bones. As the grandson of pop culture icon and pioneer of reggae, Bob Marley, Skip knows a thing about legacy. "The music knew that I would ...

Music is one of the best windows into a culture—and nowhere is that more evident than Jamaica. The Caribbean country is known for its sound above all else, having gifted the globe with six genres of ...

Sunaina Keonaona Kale grew up in California, loving Hawaiian music. Years before she earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara, Kale convinced her mom to buy her the complete ...

In Jamaica during the 1950s, people began to gather in parks and on beaches, partying to music that was spun by entrepreneurial disc jockeys and piped through outdoor loudspeakers. This quirk of ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A festival featuring performances by globally recognized headliners alongside regional and local artists, as well as food vendors and craft vendors, will return to Bethlehem this ...

Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who's unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his native Jamaica part of popular culture across the globe, has died at ...