The rise of reggae: How a uniquely Jamaican sound conquered the world

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...
Moviefone

Reggae at the BBC

An archive celebration of great reggae performances filmed in the BBC Studios drawn from programmes such as The Old Grey Whistle Test Top of the Pops and Later with Jools Holland and featuring the ...
Belfast Telegraph

Veteran reggae DJ lands BBC show

Veteran reggae broadcaster David Rodigan is to join BBC Radio 1Xtra, just weeks after he quit an award-winning show on a commercial station after 20 years. The 61-year-old, who is the UK's foremost ...
The Arts Desk

Reggae Britannia/ Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae, BBC Four

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...
The Arts Desk

The inside story of the evolution of reggae and the family that helped facilitate it

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 ...