Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elsewhere, disco emerged from the New York underground club scene to gain sudden mainstream popularity, its upbeat, danceable ...

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 ...

These four mainstream rock songs put reggae music on the international stage after its establishment in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer and songwriter who along with Bob Marley was among the most influential and popular reggae artists, has died at age 81. Cliff first came to fame during the 1960s, and ...

A week after his demise, the singer reappeared as one of the genre’s top sellers. This article explores the division of his catalog among several record labels. UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of ...