Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to the ...

Roots in resistance: Emerging in late 1960s Jamaica, reggae fused ska, rocksteady, and Rastafarian beliefs to speak against ...

Jamaica was a slave-operated plantation island for two centuries beginning in around the mid-1600s. The island then became a British colony until Jamaica gained its independence in the 1960s. Within ...

From Jamaican independence in 1962 came the horn-centric Ska, the sound-system movement, the rise of Rastafarianism and the emergence of the pop Rocksteady sound in 1966. As economic conditions in the ...