Dance Hall Reggae

• Dance Hall Reggae is a genre of Jamaican music that was started in the ghetto of Kingston Jamaica in the early 70s, Dance Hall Reggae was basically Jamaican music that at the time was prevented from getting commercial air plays, until in the mid 70s when a whole bunch of artists started to voice they opinion at street dances, what was then just called "dance". Credit must be given the late great Michael Campbell, AKA, the dread at the control, who was the first Rasta man who was fortunate to have the opportunity to play Reggae on what was then the national Radio Station in Jamaica, Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation (JBC), at that time the dread at the control was the only person nationwide that was allowed to play his personal Reggae choice on weekends on the radio until early Sunday morning, which he did for many years. Some people try to claim that culture Reggae was before dance hall Reggae, but in fact the first Reggae that was made was really a dance hall song, known as the "Nanny goat Riddim".        
  

Prior to the Nanny Goat Riddim, the popular Riddim of the day was Rock Steady which was neither dance hall Reggae or Cultural Reggae.

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