Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jamaican music is suddenly the ubiquitous chaser to this summer's nasty shot of a heatwave. Rising star Cham's "Ghetto ...

The 1978 Jamaican film Rockers was ranked its soundtrack No. 52 on “101 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time” list. The ranking ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

The 1972 movie “The Harder They Come,” which follows the journey of Ivan, who hopes to become a music star and soon finds himself on the run from police, is now a piece of theater. Assistant Managing ...

'The Harder They Come' introduced reggae to worldwide audiences and became a cult film classic.

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Professor Catherine Loveday found that those kids who were exposed to a wide variety of music developed a greater desire to broaden their social and culinary horizons ADULTS who listened to reggae and ...

Adults who listened to reggae and classical music as children are more likely to be open to trying new foods, sports, fashions and books as they grow up, a leading psychologist has claimed. Catherine ...