Tracing the popularity and evolution of reggae in Hawaiʻi, from roots to the Jawaiian era. In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of Reggae in Hawaiʻi traces the popularity and evolution of reggae in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. International television host and journalist Noel Walker set out to explore the connection between Black American history and ...

Part 2: Jawaii steps into the late ’80s and early ’90s, a pivotal time when local musicians began to make reggae their own. They added slack key and ʻukulele. They sang about their own stories, making ...

The story is, in some ways, simple. In the late 1950s Chinese-Jamaicans Vincent “Randy” Chin and his new wife Patricia started selling records for jukeboxes across the islands. They started a sideline ...

In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

Sunaina Keonaona Kale grew up in California, loving Hawaiian music. Years before she earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara, Kale convinced her mom to buy her the complete ...

Since he was a young boy, DJ Triple Crown would select records to play in the household from his record-collecting father’s impressive collection. However, he always seemed to gravitate towards the ...

"This distinctive collection on reggae music in trans/national perspective comprises the fourteen plenary lectures that were delivered at the historic conference "Global reggae" convened at the ...

The reggae musician, known for hits like “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel” discusses his career and his Jan. 11 performance with the symphony. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily newsletter to get local ...

A two-day immersive reggae and art festival is teaming up with Palm Beach County’s leading Black museum to celebrate its musical roots and lasting influence. Several elements set this festival apart ...