KINGSTON, Jamaica - Olive Lewin, a prominent musicologist and social anthropologist who helped preserve Jamaica's heritage by recording and researching the island's rich folk traditions, has died. She ...

Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (December 2022), pp. 33-80 (48 pages) Nachania (नचंनिया), translated as ‘female dancer’, refers to both a traditional Indo-Jamaican folk dance ...

During rehearsal, the music is spiritually uplifting for members of the Jamaican Folk Revue. In the church meeting room, they tell stories through lyrics, about love and marriage, dance and games, ...

Several hundred Jamaican Americans of all ages gathered at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida, on a beautiful bright Saturday afternoon in May to officially launch the Olive Lewin Heritage ...

Jamaica is proudly sharing one of its most precious national treasures – the world-renowned Jamaican Folk Singers – in October with three anticipated New York- area concerts. Known for its authentic ...

Recently back from a trip to Jamaica, Richard Edson of the Folk Art Gallery has mounted an exhibit of Jamaican artists of African descent. The works of these artists — painters, sculptors and one ...

KINGSTON Jamaica – For centuries, the voice of the Jamaican people has been amplified through its music, the foundation of which is mento. While the genre lost its sway by the 1950s, its legacy has ...

Possibly not nation has had so much international impact on the world of popular music than Jamaica, when one considers the size of the population. Jamaica's music has seemingly taken very little ...

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on ...

A Jamaican folk group formed in a Bristol hair salon will be singing with Jamaican elders to mark the Caribbean island's independence day. Tan Teddy was started in 2010 by Donna Pinnock in what used ...