Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Bob Marley made reggae famous around the world. The music genre's messages of peace are more important today than ever.

From the streets of Cairo and Tripoli to Morocco’s Sahel and Sudan's Nubian desert communities, Bob Marley’s musical legacy ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s ... with origins in enslaved work songs – created with guitar, rumba box, bongo and banjo, Mento mixed this with ...

Fifteen years ago, the Seoul-based reggae band I&I Djangdan pushed the limits for experimenting with traditional Korean music ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -Music publication Rolling Stone on Monday rolled out its list of the “100 Best Protest Songs of All-Time ... War II jazz and sixties folk to eighties house music, 2000s ...

Folk? Rock? Blues? Jazz? John Martyn was a mixture of all four and certainly one of the most progressive artists of his ...

The biggest Folk albums of the month (defined in partnership with English Folk Expo) by British and Irish artists, based on sales in the UK of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other formats, plus streams.

The group's persuasive sound was first heard on record on their self-titled debut album of January 1967. ‘Tea For The Tillerman’: How Cat Stevens Made His Masterpiece ‘Father And Son ...

Music creates an atmosphere of togetherness, whether with hit Bollywood songs or classical Punjabi folk songs. Lohri is celebrated with dance and music. (HT Photo/Sunil Ghosh) As the festivities ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR AMERICANA/FOLK ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.