This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Nightlife in Kingston is a loud affair. Jamaicans invented the ...

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 ...

Johanna Taylor teaches Jamaican dancehall choreography. Taylor got her start by taking West African and Afro Caribbean dance classes in the Bay Area. As she became a student of the craft, Taylor got ...

Dancehall has replaced reggae as the defining music of Jamaica, at least for contemporary Jamaicans. Fans say it’s the voice of the people. Critics say it glorifies sex and violence. In its most basic ...

The arrest this summer of elusive alleged drug kingpin — and Jamaican folk hero — Christopher “Dudus” Coke served as a dramatic reminder that when it comes to partying at the crossroad between ...

One of the movers and shakers in the Afrobeats movement, singer Mr Eazi, has gone dancehall on his club banger Dance Pon Me. The Nigerian artiste teams with Mixpak Records boss Dre Skull and Cadenza, ...

Jamaican dancehall deejay Danny English has reportedly died from a diabetes-related illness. He was 54. The musician was best known for the 2002 hit “Party Time” alongside Egg Nog, which sampled the ...

In May, 2017, I attended Jive Zimbabwe’s online music sales event at the Jameson Hotel. This was hosted by The Jive Zimbabwe director, Benjamin Nyandoro who brought Soul Musaka aka Soul Jah Love. Jah ...

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...