Jamaica News News Jamaica » Music: Jamaica bans music and television content that promotes violence
Jamaica’s broadcasting regulator has banned music and television broadcasting deemed to glorify or promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming, and weapons. The directive says that ...
News Jamaica » Music: Why is July 1 celebrated as International Reggae Day? The story of the music that gave Jamaica its global voice
International Reggae Day is celebrated on July 1 every year. Here’s how reggae was born in Jamaica, why the day was created and how the genre transformed global music.
News Jamaica » Music: Nine Jamaican Music Producers You Should Know About
Jamaica is one of the epicenters of music and culture. With more artists emerging on the scene, it’s important to note the names of the Jamaican music producers who have pushed artists into newer, and ...
News Jamaica » Music: Nora Dean – An Earthy Jamaican Wink
How a teenage gospel singer from Kingston became one of Jamaica’s boldest, cheekiest voices, and helped carry a musical culture all the way from the slave plantations into reggae.
News Jamaica » Music: Reggae making a revival in Jamaica, recalling golden era of '70s
KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...
News Jamaica » Music: Byron Lee, Jamaica music legend, dies
Legendary Jamaican bandleader and music icon Byron Lee, 73, died of cancer on Nov. 4 in Jamaica. Lee was 20 years old when he formed his band, the Dragonaires, in 1957. He is credited as being a ...
News Jamaica » Music: How Jamaica’s 1950s DJs Gave Rise to Their Counterparts on the Disco and Hip-Hop Scenes
In Jamaica during the 1950s, people began to gather in parks and on beaches, partying to music that was spun by entrepreneurial disc jockeys and piped through outdoor loudspeakers. This quirk of ...
News Jamaica » Music: Jamaican Music, From Reggae to Dancehall, Has an Important Cinematic Legacy
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 ...
News Jamaica » Music: Jamaica - Music and Performing Arts
Reggae is the musical genre most commonly associated with Jamaica and its distant roots are in folk music, while its closer relatives are the ska and rocksteady styles of the 1960s. Ska developed out ...