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Two-tone or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock [citation needed] and ska revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements of punk rock and new wave music.
Mar 22, 2024 · 22 March 2024. 2 Tone music started in Coventry in the 1970s. Here’s a quick guide introducing the style if you haven’t heard of it before. What is 2 Tone music? 2 Tone music was a...
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Mar 22, 2024 · 22 March 2024. By Miguel Roca-Terry,Visual Data Journalist, BBC England Data Unit. BBC. 2 Tone music started in Coventry in the 1970s. Here’s a quick guide introducing the style if you...
May 25, 2016 · Two Tone was a specifically British, or more accurately English, musical genre that came out of punk and ska in the late 1970s. The roots of Two Tone can be traced back to the arrival of West Indians to England—the so-called “Windrush Generation”—under the British Nationality Act of 1948.
Apr 30, 2021 · Two-tone bubbles up from multicultural beginnings in the late 1970s, as black and white youths drink and dance together to a feverish soundtrack of punk, reggae and ska.
Aug 19, 2019 · 2 Tone Records Interview: 40 Years of 2 Tone Records. By Dan Biggane | August 19, 2019. With its message of unity, 2 Tone burned bright as the embers of punk faded and offered hope to a generation lost. Forty years on from its inception, Classic Pop talks to its prime players: Jerry Dammers, Lynval Golding and Neville Staple of The Specials ...
Sep 16, 2021 · The documentary tells the story of 2 Tone, the musical phenomenon that exploded out of Coventry onto the music charts around the world in 1979.
