The 1970s were a wild time for American music. Disco happened, punk happened, reggae showed up in the U.S. again and stayed a long time, inspiring a burgeoning ska scene, and glam and metal bands made ...

Without question, Jamaica’s greatest export is reggae music, as embodied by the genre icon Bob Marley. Even if you’ve never had the fortune to visit the Caribbean country, Marley’s influence can be ...

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 ...

With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...

Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to the ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...