[REPORT] Also WIUC has caught the dancehall fever!

Music genres come and go. The latest popular genre is the iconic Jamaican music dancehall. Students of Wisconsin could not keep their cool when the Queen of dancehall Ebony reached the stage during the last SRC-week celebrations. The campus was full-packed. The performance also attracted students from other universities. When the Queen brought a student on stage and gave him a lap dance the audience screamed with excitement as they caught the fever.

Dancehall fever is spreading wide and fast. “I have been infected by the dancehall fever and I love the feeling the music gives me. You can not just resist an amazing dancehall tune,” says Tonye Tariah, a L400 IT-student.

Dancehall music is one of the most energetic danceable music with its crazy tunes, rhythms and fast beats. “It is never a dull moment listening to it,” says Okon Eni-obong Abigail, a L200 Accountancy student. Many artistes have been able to fill up stadia with this genre. An unbreakable record has been set by Shata Wale, a popular dancehall star in Ghana. He filled the entire stadium when his album After The Storm was launched. It is the effect of dancehall fever.

Dancehall is also known as bashment, the mother of hiphop. The name comes from the popular Jamaican recordings that were aired during parties with local sound systems. Dancehall is long considered to be the creation of the musician Henry Junjo Lawes. The term comes with an entire culture of music, dance and social engagement.

The dancehall fever seems to be incurable. You can find it in every corner of the country including the various campuses such as Wisconsin. People start to dance when the tunes starts to play. Musicians as Shata Wale has taken over the airwaves in the country. Even kids know every lyric of the songs. Dancehall has become one of the most patronize music genres. 

Culture Desk Reporters: Princess Omoferi, Rashida, Hassana Camara and Erica