This article is about the musical genre. For other uses, see SKA.
Ska
Stylistic origins
Mento
calypso
jazz
New Orleans rhythm and blues
Cultural origins
Late 1950s, Jamaica
Derivative forms
Rocksteady
Reggae
Dancehall
Fusion genres
2 Tone
ska jazz
ska pop
ska punk
ska-core
spouge
Christian ska
Regional scenes
Japan
Australia
United States
United Kingdom
Other topics
Third wave ska
list of ska musicians
rude boy
mod
skinhead
Suedehead
traditional skinhead
The Wailers "One Love/People Get Ready"
"One Love/People Get Ready" by the Wailers. This is a ska version of the famous Bob Marley song.
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Madness performing in 2005.
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]
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^"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.
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