Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elsewhere, disco emerged from the New York underground club scene to gain sudden mainstream popularity, its upbeat, danceable ...

“What? An era in Reggae and Dancehall before Sean Paul and Sean Kingston? Nooo! I’ll never let go of my notion; I’ll never let go!”Many of you have had that one conversation with a youngling when ...

“It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia,” the message begins. “I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow ...

While Atlanta was still in its funk era in the 1970s, reggae and dancehall music began to gain popularity in New York, where they would be infused with round-the-way rap to form hip-hop. For example, ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 (Reuters) - American singer Johnny Nash, known for the 1970s reggae hit "I Can See Clearly Now," has died at the age of 80, his son told celebrity website TMZ and a Los Angeles TV ...

On her pristine third album, Hollie Cook, a UK singer and one-time Slits member, draws upon 1970s reggae in songs about love and resilience. Cook eventually joined Ari in the reunited Slits lineup, ...

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 ...

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae ...