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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 · 2 Tone music was a blend of Jamaican reggae, ska, and British punk music. Jerry Dammers was an important figure in the new musical style. He started a label called 2 Tone Records in...
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Aug 19, 2019 · Sandwiched between the fury of punk and the flamboyant New Romantics, 2 Tone was the DIY indie label whose roster of bands not only raised questions regarding social ills but offered solutions.
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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. Pete Waterman (DJ,...
Sep 30, 2021 · Rhythm, Rhymes and Rap. The story of 2 Tone, which exploded from Coventry in 1979 with a musical message of unity.
Two-tone or 2 tone is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska music with elements of punk rock and new wave music.
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.