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 ...

Magnum Dancehall Week is celebrating three years as a cultural platform highlighting Jamaica’s dancehall culture. What began as an ambitious effort to formally recognise and celebrate Jamaica’s most ...

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 ...

We sat down with Kybba at Manolo’s in Downtown Miami. Over Cuban coffee and a packed schedule, the Italian DJ and producer reflected on his early influences, the global rise of his sound, and how a ...

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on ...

Born Chinsea Lin Lee in Mandeville, Jamaica, Shenseea is the product of a Jamaican mother and a Korean father. As a child, she would go back and forth between St. Elizabeth and Kingston to spend time ...

As a pop-culture-consuming whole, Americans have a strange relationship with Jamaican dancehall. Although it’s one of the most important and prolific music scenes in the world, we routinely ignore it ...

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 ...

Dancehall music has long been one of Jamaica’s most powerful cultural exports, influencing artists and audiences across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Jamaica have arrested a dancehall artist accused of recording and playing a song they say ...