The ensemble, known for its cultural authenticity, the Jamaican Folk singers uses music, song and traditional garb in their moving shows. “Ark of Return,” the winning design of the ...

This folk music was then followed by the first recorded Jamaican music — Mento — which includes the work of pioneers such as Stanley Motta. In fact, mento bands can still be found performing ...

Amanda Petrusich on Jamaica’s dancehall-music scene and the book “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” by Maxine Walters.

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in Trinidad, the sound of Mento can be traced back to the convergent ...

This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s. Like calypso it is strophic in form and has light-hearted lyrics accompanied by offbeat chords on guitar and banjo, as can be heard in ...

Anyone unaware of the sexual depravity of current Jamaican music has ... music originated from the work and play songs of slaves and transitioned after Emancipation into the theme of the rural folk.

The grand maestro of Jamaican music: Carlos Malcolm at Steakhouse Studios in Los Angeles. (Credit: Bernadette Madden) Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now ...

He recorded ‘60s icon Donovan in Ireland and a Jamaican folk music project with Bob Marley’s mother, Cedella Marley Booker, in Hawaii. The latter was another collaboration with Taj Mahal, ...

Mention Jamaican music to most Americans and the pop sounds of reggae usually come to mind. But there’s much more—the wonderfully rich harmonies of choral music, hundreds of rarely heard sacred songs ...

The arrest this summer of elusive alleged drug kingpin — and Jamaican folk hero — Christopher "Dudus" Coke served as a dramatic reminder that when i Jamaican Dancehall: Gangster's Paradise - SPIN ...

Belafonte popularized the Jamaican folk song “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” by recording it for his hit 1956 album “Calypso,” which helped bring the music genre to the masses.