Stories by Mel Cooke

During the panel discussion segment of the third annual Joan Duncan Memorial Lecture held at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), Papine Campus, last Wednesday, two persons used track and field analogies in explaining their approaches to...

Christopher Martin's song Big Deal, done over as a KFC advertisement, has undergone not only an adjustment in lyrics, but also a transformation in character, for the original was a statement of self-affirmation and not feeling inferior to another...

Even as the cost to repair damage caused by last week's heavy showers, especially in St Thomas, continues, and the incalculable loss of a child's life is absorbed, there is no denying that rain is mood weather.As expressed in Jamaican popular music...

Since the announcement that there will be no International Nights on the Reggae Sumfest main stage this year, the naysayers have had a ball doing what naysayers always do. However, there is another way to look at it - not what the summer music...

Land of My Birth, written by Winston Wallace and sung by Eric Donaldson, is one of the Festival Song Competition winners which has transcended the annual Independence celebrations and endured past the year it won (1978).The ultra-patriotic song came...

No, I am not talking about anti-homosexual lyrics, as the headline may immediately bring to mind. This time around the term was not actually used, but the implication was there when Police Commissioner Dr Car Williams recently stated that there is a...