Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, these four double-CD collections place the evolution of Jamaican music in its rightful historic context. Whereas before, if you ...

"Those three notes in Peaches: you do those three notes and it's instantly identifiable" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As bass ...

Reggae and dub have shaped the evolution of various music styles. Nicolas-Tyrell Scott explores their influence on five key genres Across history, various forms of cultural production have expanded by ...

A new exhibition celebrates dub reggae music and culture in the capital, from its roots in Jamaica to its half-century of influence on London communities The exhibition at the Museum of London runs ...

Reggae was born in Jamaica, but it found a second home in the UK – the result of waves of post-war Caribbean migration, and the curatorial ambitions of labels like Chris Blackwell’s Island Records, ...

The original practitioners established dub not just as a distinctive reggae offshoot, but as the prototype for all electronic music and its associated practices. By Patricia Meschino On a balmy late ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. They say the pioneers get the arrows and the settlers get the land, yet King Tubby was always lord of his ...