Wednesday September 12th Miss Lily's Variety here in NYC will be hosting a book launch for a different sort of art book; an extensive collection of hand-painted Jamaican dancehall signs documented by ...

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on ...

If you were alive and clubbing in the boroughs in the 1980s and ‘90s, chances are you saw advertisements for a “sound clash.” If you were lucky—and near enough to Flatbush, Jamaica or Wakefield—you ...

This is an edited version of a speech given by Professor Hope at the recent launch of the dancehall show New Rules, featuring deejay Alkaline, set for the National Stadium on July 2. My words come ...