The most distinctive and exciting music of Jamaica is the reggae sound that first became popular in the early 1970s.

More recently, dances have become associated with the music of Jamaica, particularly dancehall styles.

The term "raggamuffin music" describes the music of Jamaica's "ghetto dwellers".

Rock It Come Over: the Folk Music of Jamaica.

Rock Steady maintains many of the styles present in No Doubt's previous work, while introducing influences from the music of Jamaica.

Rocksteady was the music of Jamaica's rude boys by the mid-1960s, when The Wailers and The Clarendonians dominated the charts.

Goombay is also an alternate spelling for the gumbe, a Jamaican drum (see Music of Jamaica and List of Caribbean drums).

There are other ingredients to his rhythms as well: bits suggested by the music of Jamaica and Trinidad and by John Coltrane's fluttering, continuous phrasing.

Her book, Rock It Come Over: the Folk Music of Jamaica, describes Jekyll's 1907 book as "very well researched," but she gives examples of occasional errors.

The troupe of drummers, singers and dancers performs music of Jamaica's Afro-Caribbean folk religions and rituals, including Nyabinghi, Kumina and Karomanti, and its modern heirs.

The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, ska jazz, reggae fusion and related styles.

The Jamaican government under P.J. Patterson honoured Cliff on 20 October 2003, by awarding him The Order of Merit, the nation's third-highest honour, in recognition of his contributions to the film and music of Jamaica.

Simpson was heavily influenced by his Music of Jamaica; his father's blue beat, ska and Trojan Records record collection, his mother's pentecostalism church sessions and the Sound system (Jamaican) parties in Manchester's Moss Side area where he grew up.

It is often used in Filmi Sangeet - Indian film music - in chutney music, baithak gana, tan singing and the local Indian music of Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, where it was brought by indentured immigrants.