Reggae's roots, springing from the social ... lawless with ‘Rude Boys’ gangsters terrorising locals. Music mirrored this and Rocksteady, a slower paced sound, grew in popularity.

The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento ... was Reggae's musical ambassador to the rest of the world, his rocksteady catalogue including the massive singles "007 (Shanty Town ...

The history of Jamaican pop music will be told in a novel way during ... The Original Maytals Band representing rocksteady; reggae singers Ernie Smith, Wayne Armond, and Ambelique; dancehall ...

Jamaican music producer Clement "Sir Coxsone'' Dodd, an early pioneer of ska, rocksteady and reggae, died on Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 72. In 1963 Dodd opened Studio One, Jamaica's ...

David Muir, a director and co-founder of Island SPACE Caribbean Museum, described Reggae Genealogy as a “very successful event”. He said, with South Florida being home to one of the largest Jamaican ...