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Dec 23, 2022 · Jamaican 'Ska' is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rock-steady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American...
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Mr & Mrs Moonstomper, take a look at the original ska subculture from the 1960's. #documentary #music #ska #subculture #culture
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Aug 9, 2021 · The Maytals - Never Grow Old (1964) I have a friend that will pull out Toots and the Maytals for anybody that insists they absolutely hate ska music. You can understand why. Toots Hibbert is an ...
Gie Knaeps/Getty Images. The ska style known as 2 tone developed in the late 1970s and early '80s in England. According to SF Gate, while reggae was exploding in Jamaica, the popularity of new wave in the U.K. made nostalgia for '60s ska fashionable, and British bands picked it up (pun intended).
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• 8 yr. ago. You're absolutely right all of it was Jamaican. A lot of 60s ska though was taken from American music of the time. There were a lot of covers, samples and tributes. A couple examples: Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop (The Cadillacs) Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond) Delroy Wilson - Riding for a Fall (The Tams)
It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods and with many skinheads.