Topic summary
Dancehall music
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Dancehall.
Early developments - Early 1970s
Dancehall music, also called ragga, is a style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political turbulence of the late 1970s and became Jamaica's dominant music in the 1980s and '90s. It was also originally called Bashment music when Jamaican dancehalls began to gain popularity.