LONDON – Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with songs such as "Israelites," has died, his manager said Friday. He was 64. Dekker, who lived in England, collapsed ...

February marks National Reggae Month — a time to celebrate the rich anthology of Jamaican music and honor the birthdays of late icons Dennis Brown and Bob Marley. The festival will include dancers ...

Nearly 40 years after it was created in Jamaica, and 20 years after it briefly reignited in England, ska has finally invaded the American pop charts in a big way. Which is good news for pioneering ska ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did ...

Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for reggae, died on Wednesday. He was 64. He died after collapsing from a heart attack in his home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved reggae singer and Jamaican musical icon Jimmy Cliff has died at 81. The “Many Rivers to Cross” singer’s wife, Latifah ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS SF/AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante ...