This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s ... as can be heard in the example below. A fast dance style with offbeat chords that emerged in the late 1950s. The lyrics tended ...
The Jamaican dancehall was a space in which people once went to dance, but the days of couples ‘renting a tile’ seems a thing of the past. That is of great concern to singer Isiah Mentor.