Back Ska ALS Ska AN سكا Arabic Ska AST Ска Bulgarian Ska Catalan Ska Czech Ska Welsh Ska Danish Ska German
| Ska | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1950s, Jamaica |
| Derivative forms | |
| Fusion genres | |
| |
| Regional scenes | |
| Other topics | |
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. 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.[2] In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods and with many skinheads.[3][4][5][6]
Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s; the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain, which fused Jamaican ska rhythms and melodies with the faster tempos and harder edge of punk rock forming ska-punk; and third wave ska, which involved bands from a wide range of countries around the world, in the late 1980s and 1990s.[7]
- ^ "Ska". Encyclopædia Britannica. Hussey Dermot. pp. http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article–9118222.
- ^ "Ska Revival" (Web). Genre Listing. AllMusic. 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ^ Brown, Timothy S. (2004). "Subcultures, pop music and politics: skinheads and "Nazi rock" in England and Germany". Journal of Social History. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009.
- ^ "Smiling Smash: An Interview with Cathal Smyth, a.k.a Chas Smash, of Madness - Ska/Reggae - 08/16/99". 19 February 2001. Archived from the original on 19 February 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ Marshall, George (1991). Spirit of '69 - A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing. ISBN 1-898927-10-3)
- ^ "Inspecter 7". Montrealmirror.com. 14 January 1998. Archived from the original on 26 June 2002. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ Joel Selvin (23 March 2008). "Selvin, Joel, San Francisco Chronicle, "A brief history of ska" Sunday, March 23, 2008". Sfgate.com. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search