Jamaica's soundsystem culture laid the foundation many of the most significant developments in electronic music culture ...

Having originated within a cultural space home to marginalised groups, mainly in Western Kingston, the Reggae Music of Jamaica is an amalgam of musical influences, including earlier Jamaican forms as ...

Selectors from across the region showed off their skills at the inaugural staging of the Red Bull Selector event on Saturday.

The showdown is set to take place at Campus Elite’s annual UWI Carnival after party, D’Aftermas, on March 15, 2025, and will ...

A new documentary is highlighting how Jamaican music became a pivotal and unexpected part of Canadian culture. Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul documents the tremendous impact immigrants from ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Black Music Research Journal Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2016 Ragga Soca Burning the Moral Compass: An ...

“Be open to new music because this is in Jamaica; we’re the originators of dancehall, and you’re gonna get dancehall on the road. So if you’re a soca purist, you may come to Jamaica and be ...

By Kyle Denis Right on the heels of Trinidad Carnival — where she mounted the sixth iteration of her own Sokah Origins concert — Caribbean Music Award-winning soca superstar Nailah Blackman is ...

But while the music owes a lot to Jamaican and West Indian styles like dancehall, soca, and calypso ... of West Indian workers emigrated from Jamaica and Barbados to help build it.