Versions, rewinds and dance argument

A Jamaican dance or move associated with the street era. Starter record pending editorial verification.

Instrumental or deejay-ready B-side practice that helped Jamaican producers reuse rhythms and foreground mixing, toasting and dub.

Dancehall/reggae lyrical mode emphasizing social comment, Rastafari, morality or historical consciousness, often contrasted with slackness.

Term for sexually explicit or transgressive lyrical style in dancehall, often debated against cultural or roots concerns.

Sound-system practice of rewinding a record after strong crowd response, later encoded in reggae and dancehall performance language.

A Jamaican dance or move associated with the street era. Starter record pending editorial verification.

Censorship, slackness, culture lyrics, riddim credit, clean edits, radio power and reissue framing are part of the history too.

Willie Bounce, Dutty Wine, Gully Creepa: dancehall's dance crazes travelled as a package deal of move, name and tune.

How the fight over 'slack' versus 'conscious' lyrics became dancehall's defining debate.

In 1982, a 19-year-old on a South London sound system deejayed faster than anyone had heard, and a UK style was born.