Rocking aught-ly appropriate zigzag cornrows, dripped in green, gold, and black, and holding an old-school double cassette player decorated with stickers of Rastafari icon Emperor Haile Selassie and ...

The 12 Best Dancehall Songs of the '90s - DancehallMag. The 1990s were the decade when dancehall became digital, more ...

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 ...

Reggae and dancehall began as forms of resistance from disenfranchised communities within Jamaica. Reggae was conceived in the ’50s as an amalgamation of both Jamaican sounds (mento and ska) and ...

Jamaica was a slave-operated plantation island for two centuries beginning in around the mid-1600s. The island then became a British colony until Jamaica gained its independence in the 1960s. Within ...

Spice wants to show women how much can be accomplished on their own, and tells us making Grammy history with her debut album is a big step toward that goal. The Queen of Dancehall is one of 2 female ...