For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...
Today, Campbell is known worldwide as the unmistakable voice behind UB40, the British reggae band that helped bring the genre ...
Few genres have had such an international impact, while remaining so geographically specific, as reggae. The best reggae albums are Jamaican through and through, and though there are other small ...
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 ...
In the backstreets of Birmingham, long before global tours and platinum records, a young Ali Campbell stood outside “shebeens ...
Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento, but in the 40s and 50s Jamaicans were also listening to music from the US ...
Reggae and dub have shaped the evolution of various music styles. Nicolas-Tyrell Scott explores their influence on five key genres Across history, various forms of cultural production have expanded by ...