In 1955, Duke Vin, a sharply dressed and entrepreneurial British Rail employee in west London, who had arrived from Kingston, Jamaica just a year earlier, built his first sound system. It was a ...

A sound system music event has been organised to fundraise for people affected by the devastation of Hurricane Melissa. The category five storm hit Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba at the end of October ...

In Jamaica during the 1950s, people began to gather in parks and on beaches, partying to music that was spun by entrepreneurial disc jockeys and piped through outdoor loudspeakers. This quirk of ...

Hip-hop is having a party. For the uninitiated, 2023 marks a year-long 50th birthday celebration for the genre. Celebrations and commemorations abound just about everywhere—even at unlikely places, ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. I heard the low rumble of bass even before I passed through the ...

'How is it that I, a Jamaican who has lived all my life on the island, do not sound like one?' This realisation dawned when I was mistaken, by both several compatriots, as well as by lovers of Jamaica ...

Stone Love Movement will stop in Bermuda this month as part of an international tour celebrating their 50th anniversary. The Jamaican sound system is loved by “thousands of Bermudians” who grew up ...

Sergio Ortiz is a soft-spoken teacher in San Antonio College’s music business program. But as the reggae artist Sgt. Remo, he makes some serious noise with a wall of speakers that looks like ...