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ska

Music genre from Jamaica in the 1950s

Also known as ska music

Instance of: music genre
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Subclass of: popular music
Founded: 1958

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Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento 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. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods and with many skinheads.

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Name in kana: スカ
Country of origin: Jamaica
United States
Latin America
Europe
Australia
Practiced by: ska band
Different from: Q9337435
Ska

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