Scene and heard: Japanese dancehall

Reggae's bass-heavy, rump-shaking son is thriving in Japan, where homegrown stars now outshine their Jamaican peersSome of my friends (the less intelligent ones) think that I invent music genres for a living, and if they were to see the subject of this blog, it would be difficult to persuade them otherwise. In the UK there is a massive dancehall scene. This is understandable: there are around 500,000 Jamaicans living here, and an estimated 7% of Londoners are of Jamaican heritage.But despite an ...

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