2006-12-23 19:56:02 · 11 answers · asked by apple 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
How can you call yourself a "rock girl" if you dont know your genres?
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2006-12-24 03:09:45 · answer #1 · answered by flippin'eck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ska is a type of Jamaican music combining elements of traditional mento and calypso with an American jazz and rhythm and blues sound. It is notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazz-like horn riffs on the offbeat.
Originating in Jamaica, possibly in the 1950s, it was a precursor to rocksteady and later reggae. It was the predominant form of music listened to by rude boys, although many ska artists condemned the violent subculture. It is also popular with mods and skinheads, with artists such as Symarip, Laurel Aitken, Desmond Dekker and The Pioneers aiming songs at these groups as early as the 1960s.
Musical historians typically divide the history of ska into three waves. There was revival of note in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and another wave of popularity in the 1990s, mostly based in the United States.
2006-12-24 04:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Specials are a really great ska band. You should check them out.
2006-12-24 05:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by gvuskpives 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ska became popular around the 1960's and if you know what Raggae is you sort of know what Ska is. See the link
2006-12-24 03:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Star 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ska is fast jazz with a brass section. The term now usually means a rock band with a brass section (No Doubt, Save Ferris, Streetlight Manifesto, Five Hours).
2006-12-24 04:07:05 · answer #5 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ska /skÉ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skah] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.
Compare reggae, rock steady.
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[Origin: 1960–65; of obscure orig.]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source ska (skä) Pronunciation Key
n. Popular music originating in Jamaica in the 1960s, having elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, and calypso and marked by a fast tempo and a strongly accented offbeat.
[From the phrase (Love) Ska(voovie), greeting used by Jamaican bassist Cluet Johnson, one of the early creators of ska, or imitative of the sound of a guitar in tandem with a rim click on a snare drum.]
2006-12-24 04:04:06 · answer #6 · answered by kirk p 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ska is the sound the rhythm guitar makes,ska ska ska ska
2006-12-24 07:28:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ska is like reggae music
2006-12-24 03:59:22 · answer #8 · answered by sweet sugar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its like a reggie mod sound even a bit of punk, the specials, the beat, selector.
2006-12-24 17:37:00 · answer #9 · answered by clare p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.thespecials.com/
2006-12-24 04:33:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋