Johanna Taylor teaches Jamaican dancehall choreography. Taylor got her start by taking West African and Afro Caribbean dance classes in the Bay Area. As she became a student of the craft, Taylor got ...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — In 2016, the cover of the Yellow Pages brought Jamaica to a standstill. For the Kingston and St. Andrews editions of the directory, three artists were commissioned to create ...

“There’s an art to having a good time,” Akeem Smith says. He would know. Even though he’s standing alone in Red Bull Arts, a cavernous gallery space on West 18th Street in New York, Smith is presiding ...

The world of underground Jamaican dancehall, and specifically the culture of Dancehall Queens, is vibrantly explored in new documentary Bruk Out! Here's the synopsis: BRUK OUT! follows six outspoken ...

In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

In the cultural spaces from which dancehall music gets its name, women are usually the center of attention. The Jamaican genre’s digital rhythms are calibrated to inspire female bodies to wine, as the ...

At the in-person ceremony, Kranium was announced as the victor of Caribbean R&B artist of the year, and even took the stage to accept his award in front of the packed theatre. Once the ceremony aired ...

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...

Reggae Sumfest has been Jamaica’s premiere festival for more than 25 years; the Montego Bay event mixes the genre’s legends with local acts, plus great local food, all night beach dance parties and ...

There are 2.8 million people in Jamaica. To put that in perspective, that’s less people than live in Kansas. And yet, Jamaican food, Jamaican culture, Jamaica beaches, Jamaican music, and, yes, ...