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 ...

For half a century, Sly & Robbie reached into every corner of popular music. They were reggae icons and an in-demand rhythm ...

Sly Dunbar, the legendary Jamaican drummer who played on countless hits with his longtime partner Robbie Shakespeare, has ...

As one half of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, he played with some of the biggest names in music, including Bob Dylan ...

Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, who was one half of legendary Jamaican duo Sly & Robbie, has died, his daughter confirmed to TMZ.

In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Rastafarian group spent months making the weapons of a cultural crusade--1,200 brooms to symbolically whisk the sex and violence of American gangsta rap out of the pure “One Love ...

The Jamaican drummer and music producer Sly Dunbar has died. As part of the duo Sly & Robbie, he significantly shaped reggae music.

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 ...

Reggae, although imported from Jamaica, has been the cornerstone music of Zimbabwe since Bob Marley’s visit to this country ...

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 ...

The legendary reggae drummer, Sly Dunbar, has died at age 73, creating performances that defined the genre while also ...