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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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Apr 16, 2018 · It was the same respite from struggle and tension that had produced ska in Jamaica in the early 1960s, in England in the late 1970s, and now in America in the 1980s and ’90s.
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May 28, 2020 · Most ska punk bands threw in homages to the origins of the genre, referencing earlier bands or, as No Doubt did with their 2001 album Rocksteady, traveling to Kingston to record their music. Ska’s history and influences, from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, cross cultural borders and political barriers.
Ska ( / skɑː /; Jamaican: [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [1] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.
- Late 1950s, Jamaica
Mar 22, 2023 · Joe Massot’s vivid 1981 film about the British ska scene brims with life, sweat and the faces of ecstatic fans Peter Bradshaw Wed 22 Mar 2023 09.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 22 Mar 2023 09.02 EDT
Jul 27, 2020 · By goodblacknews on July 27, 2020. Ska originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to reggae. It combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska developed further in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, and Duke Reid formed “sound systems” to play American ...
