The Jamaican dancehall was a space in which people once went to dance, but the days of couples ‘renting a tile’ seems a thing of the past. That is of great concern to singer Isiah Mentor.
Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this ...
"It's All About Dancing: A Jamaican Dance-U-Mentary" is a brilliant work of art. The director has created a masterpiece (and to the best of my knowledge), has produced the first visual documentation ...
Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s ... mobile discos on the streets – became the new craze. Dances were a big part of the Jamaican working class community ...
Folk? Rock? Blues? Jazz? John Martyn was a mixture of all four and certainly one of the most progressive artists of his ...
FKA twigs then mucked up properly when playing the doomed love interest in Rupert Sanders’s dreadful reboot of the gothic ...
A group of local musicians, through ShowJam Entertainment, played mento music—a type of Jamaican folk music that was ... into the mix on the reception dance floor: guests were handed neon ...
The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning(JCAL) invites Queens residents to celebrate Black History Month through the art of West African dance. For those interested in immersing themselves in ...
At the annual Spring Festival Gala, the robots performed the traditional Yangge dance, a folk art from northeast China, in perfect time with human dancers. According to Chinese media outlets ...
Fifteen years ago, the Seoul-based reggae band I&I Djangdan pushed the limits for experimenting with traditional Korean music ...
KINSGTON, Jamaica – Former Google executive working on the monetisation of Google Maps, Natalie Bennett, has joined local tech firm Y Smart Data as its new Chief Product Officer. Her appointment ...