Some of the collaborations that have made their way onto the charts include What’s Love with Akon; That Girl with Maxi Priest ...

The new film shows how Damian Marley’s Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise went from a crazy idea to a premier event in global ...

As a pop-culture-consuming whole, Americans have a strange relationship with Jamaican dancehall. Although it’s one of the most important and prolific music scenes in the world, we routinely ignore it ...

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 ...

Reading the Jamaica Gleaner this week, I fell upon an article announcing the fact that six of the 10 records in the Billboard Reggae chart are by non-Jamaicans. Nothing against Matisyahu, but given ...

Before reggae became a global phenomenon, record store owner Leroy Webb helped foster a home for the genre in Boston.

What would dancehall reggae look like if it were G-rated — cleansed of all shout-outs to female anatomy, devoid of references to particular brands of ammunition, less invested in being hardcore than ...

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 ...

On being a reggae-dancehall entertainment publicist in the digital age, he said, “I feel more empowered, to be honest. 10 years ago, when I got into the game the trends had already started to emerge ...

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on ...