Wycliffe Johnson, 47, a keyboardist and producer known as "Steely" who helped steer Jamaican music for nearly two decades and modernize the dancehall genre, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Patchogue ...

The music grew in popularity in Jamaica during the late 1970s and early 1980s, buoyed by notable DJs. As people left the country and migrated elsewhere, Cole says, dancehall culture was one way ...

Amanda Petrusich on Jamaica’s dancehall-music scene and the book “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” by Maxine Walters.

Despite its electronic riddims and studio-doctored effects, dancehall is folk music in the truest sense of the word, the lingua franca of the Jamaican people.

Right from the genre's inception in the early 1980s, Toronto has been a hub for dancehall music. That's evident in Art of Dancehall, the new book from DJ/producer Walshy Fire — best known for ...

The themes and lyrics of reggae music have served as a platform for storytelling that reflected Jamaica’s history of rebellion. Deejays — as the vocalists were known — told stories of ...

“Dancehall is just bringing it to the mainstream.” As the music’s influence has grown, Jamaica’s Broadcasting Commission has tried to impose rules on radio stations to limit explicit language.

Credited as one of the primary artists who brought reggae traditions back to dancehall music, Jamaican legend Capleton has been an industry force since the late 1980s. Back then, his focus on ...

Music artists, tastemakers and executives gathered at the Island Music Conference in Jamaica. Among the topics: the future of reggae and dancehall.

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