I know it's a genre, but could someone explain to me what it is basically? Is it kinda like rock or something? And please give artists who use ska as a genre
2007-04-15 16:31:34 · 10 answers · asked by Lucid 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Ska is something that started in Jamaica and moved to the United states. It's mostly heavy on horns. I think what you have heard more is Ska music in the mainstream United States.
That Ska is more punkish. Bands like Mustard Plug, Streetlight Manifesto, No Doubt, and Reel Big Fish are some bands that have received some big pushes by the radio. You may recognize Mighty Mighty Bosstones who were pretty big. This is the third wave of Ska and has mostly slowed down due to the scene changing to more pop rock.
Ska is still very much around and Warped Tour is a great place to discover some new Ska bands.
2007-04-15 16:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by kevingalley2007 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1st wave ska is Jamaican reggae with backgrounds to American blues. Example: The Wailers.
2nd wave ska is also known as "two-tone ska", which utilized keyboards and concert instruments (trumpet, trombone, saxophone, etc.) and a more rock-n-roll feel and really only lasted in the 1970's in England. Example: The Specials.
3rd wave ska is based on punk, with the concert instruments thrown in. Examples: Reel Big Fish, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, Mustard Plug.
2007-04-15 17:00:50 · answer #2 · answered by Ric 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
Examples of ska bands: The argyles, The busters, So long sunday, The impossibles, Operation Ivy
2007-04-15 16:40:48 · answer #3 · answered by keriberi2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always known ska to be a combination of punk and reggae. Check out Real Big Fish, they're a pretty good example.
2007-04-15 16:36:18 · answer #4 · answered by Steph L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's sort of like reggae meets rock and roll.
Madness and the Specials were ska.
2007-04-15 16:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by raleigh_jazz_fan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is ska reggae
supposed to have started by use of word skat! to describe guitar strum..
i think of aussie band area 7 as a ska band.. might mighty bosstones reel big fish
i always thought of ska as 'skater' as it suited the vans tour
2007-04-15 16:34:19 · answer #6 · answered by cas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jamaica-originated music genre that combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bassline, a scratchlike tempo, accented guitar or piano rhythms on the offbeat; and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs. Originating in the late 1950s, it was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae.[1]
2007-04-15 16:34:11 · answer #7 · answered by Dani G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ska is a skater-punk rock. i love it its amazing some examples are
rancid
tim armstrong (lead singer of rancid but his solo project)
yeah
2007-04-15 16:37:34 · answer #8 · answered by Maddy Rene 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't know how to explain it but i think a ska band is the mighty mighty bosstones.
2007-04-15 16:36:10 · answer #9 · answered by whatwhatwhat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's kind of like rock,jazz,regae.
older no doubt. a little sublime. mostly bands are from southern us.
2007-04-15 16:41:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋