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- “There’s a street in Jamaica, you all should know,” says Prince Buster in a YouTube video, introducing his 1967 ode to the birthplace of ska music, “Shaking Up Orange Street.” “The Prince,” born Cecil Bustamente Campbell on the song’s namesake street in Kingston, Jamaica, is widely regarded as the father of ska music.
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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
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Rascal King” Between “The Impression That I Get” and Dicky Barrett tanking his legacy by composing anti-vax anthems for RFK, Jr., came this little gem.
- Fishbone “Party At Ground Zero. At some point, society decided the best way to deal with Cold War atomic anxiety was through puppetry and mask work. Combine that with makeup, stock footage, politically charged lyrics, animation, stock footage, costumes, the plot of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of The Red Death,” and the most-high energy band of all time and you have a 4:50-minute long representation of 1985.
- Madness “House of Fun” For almost 50 years Madness created bouncy ska-influenced pop songs with lyrics about growing up delivered in indefinable Cockney slang.
- Rancid “Red Hot Moon” For a band that looks like caricatures of punk henchmen from a Canon Films action movie, Rancid did put out a lot of ska singles, “Red Hot Moon” being their best effort.
Ska, Jamaica’s first indigenous urban pop style. Pioneered by the operators of powerful mobile discos called sound systems, ska evolved in the late 1950s from an early Jamaican form of rhythm and blues that emulated American rhythm and blues, especially that produced in New Orleans, Louisiana. A
Mar 16, 2021 · Skatune Network, a popular channel on Youtube, has produced Ska covers of popular songs or T.V. show themes, and seeks to expand Ska to those who were not aware of it before. They champion the Fourth Wave, despite cries that it has not yet arrived.
Oct 2, 2013 · Random Hand – “Anger Management”. Random Hand is one of the newer bands/songs on this list. They are a British ska-core band. A genre that is slowly going extinct. Streetlight Manifesto – “Here’s to Life”. Streetlight Manifesto made a name for themselves when they released “Everything Goes Numb” in 2003.
