The dance halls of Jamaica in the 1950s and 1960s were home to public dances usually targeted at younger patrons. Sound System operators had big home-made audio systems (often housed in the flat bed of a pickup truck), spinning records from popular American rhythm and blues musicians and Jamaican ska and rocksteady performers. The term dancehall has also come to refer to a subgenre of reggae that originated around 1980.

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  • The dance halls of Jamaica in the 1950s and 1960s were home to public dances usually targeted at younger patrons. Sound System operators had big home-made audio systems (often housed in the flat bed of a pickup truck), spinning records from popular American rhythm and blues musicians and Jamaican ska and rocksteady performers. The term dancehall has also come to refer to a subgenre of reggae that originated around 1980.
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  • April 2007
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  • The dance halls of Jamaica in the 1950s and 1960s were home to public dances usually targeted at younger patrons. Sound System operators had big home-made audio systems (often housed in the flat bed of a pickup truck), spinning records from popular American rhythm and blues musicians and Jamaican ska and rocksteady performers. The term dancehall has also come to refer to a subgenre of reggae that originated around 1980.
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  • Dance Hall (Caribbean)
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