With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...

The 1970s were a wild time for American music. Disco happened, punk happened, reggae showed up in the U.S. again and stayed a long time, inspiring a burgeoning ska scene, and glam and metal bands made ...

While Atlanta was still in its funk era in the 1970s, reggae and dancehall music began to gain popularity in New York, where they would be infused with round-the-way rap to form hip-hop. For example, ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 (Reuters) - American singer Johnny Nash, known for the 1970s reggae hit "I Can See Clearly Now," has died at the age of 80, his son told celebrity website TMZ and a Los Angeles TV ...

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae ...

Corey Harris, the internationally itinerate blues singer and guitarist whose attention has most recently turned toward Jamaica, is framing his latest works in the easy-going rhythms of late-1970s ...

FILE - Reggae singer Peter Anthony Morgan of Morgan Heritage performs on the at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival Saturday, May 4, 2002, in New Orleans. Peter Morgan, lead singer of the ...

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