Shifting ethics, social upheavals and escalations in political and civil rights protests each contributed to the chaotic, landmark year that was 1968. By Patricia Meschino Shifting ethics, social ...

9 August 1973 Once the underdog of western popular music, now, the time is deemed right for the promotion of Jamaica’s top reggae bands That jangling, syncopated sound of modern Jamaica, known as ...

A revolutionary form of music took the world by storm in the Seventies and dragged a little-known island languishing in the Caribbean along with it. That music was reggae and the island was, of course ...

FIRST-GENERATION Britons of West Indian heritage, David Hinds and Angus “Drummie Zeb” Gaye had a lot in common. As young black men during the early 1970s they experienced rampant racism in the United ...

The opening of The Harder They Come at the Playhouse Theatre returns us with a bang to the moment reggae entered the world. There had been one-off ska hits from Jamaica before. But the 1972 Perry ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos, violins, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Call it Reggaenomics. As a drumbeat eases the listener into a familiar reggae rhythm, the high tenor of Jamaican pop star Tarrus Riley cuts through the groove.