Ska
Ska is a popular music from Jamaica that began in the 1950s. Ska music that was first played at a slower tempo then became reggae in the late 1960s.
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| Cultural origins | Late 1950s, Jamaica |
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Ska music bands include singers, electric guitars, electric bass guitar, piano, organ, saxophone, trumpet, and trombone. In ska, the electric guitar and piano normally play short chords on the off-beat. If you go "one and two and three and four", the off-beat is the "and".
A ska singer does a style of Jamaican singing called "toasting." When a singer is "toasting", they make sounds, repeat words, invent rhymes, and shout into the microphone. The Jamaican "toasting" style of singing and talking was adapted into rap music in the 1980s.
How Ska musicians dress
Musicians who play ska dress in hats and suits. Many ska bands wear clothes with a chessboard pattern of black and white squares. Doc Martens are a common type of shoe. This pattern symbolizes the way that ska music mixes of Black and White musicans and styles of music.There was a British genre of ska-punk influenced by The Specials, Madness and the English Beat, that began to dress in kilts.[1]
1980s Ska Revival
Even though ska was developed in the 1950s, it became popular again in the 1980s in Britain. In the 1980s, ska bands such as The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, UB40 and Madness played ska music.
1990s Ska mixed with punk rock
In the 1990s, some bands mixed ska music with Punk rock to make ska-punk. This kind of ska music is from England and the United States. Some pop-punk bands from the 1990s mixed pop-punk with ska-punk.
Ska bands and singers
- No Doubt
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- The Specials
- The Selecter (British band)
- The Beat (British band)
- Madness (English band)
- Sublime
- Prince Buster (Jamaican singer)
- Desmond Dekker (Jamaican singer)
- The Bodysnatchers (female British band)
- The Skatalites (Jamaican band)
- Streetlight Manifesto (American band)
- The Toasters (American band)
- The Slackers (New York City band)
- Rusted Root (American band)
- Westbound Train (Boston band)
- Reel Big Fish
- Suburban Legends (American band)
- Catch 22 (American band)
- Less Than Jake
- Lord Creator (Jamaican singer)
- The King Blues (British band)
Ska Media
The Specials at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, IL March 11, 2013
Fishbone playing in Los Angeles
Desorden Publico, which are from Caracas, Venezuela formed in 1985.
The Uptones, which are from Berkeley, California, formed in 1981.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in their typical plaid outfits.
The Dance Hall Crashers in 1998.
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References
- ↑ Hannah Mitchell. "The California Celts bring kilt-clad musical experience to Chandler". East Valley Tribune (Tempe Arizona). Retrieved 21 July 2015.