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Dancehall
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Genre of Jamaican popular music
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Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably, with digital dancehall (or "ragga") becoming...

Instance of
Music genre
Subclass of
Reggae
Country of origin
Jamaica
References
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