Ska emerged in Jamaica as a kind of ham-fisted combination of American rhythm and blues and Caribbean folk styles, such as calypso and mento, in the late '50s, but it flourished after the former ...
Hong Kong International Reggae Ska Festival planner Paul Thompson shares why the city jives with Jamaican music and 2026’s ...
In July 1995, a new type of teen movie came out with a new type of soundtrack, including the mainstream arrival of America's ...
A look at the new book In Defense Of Ska and a network of artists giving the oft-maligned genre a fresh burst of life When Aaron Carnes began research for his book nearly a decade ago, he didn’t ...
A case could be made that the ska music scene in Southern California was born in part because the longhaired dude behind the soundboard at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip was playing too much ...
A remake of a classic and fun to boot! Amaika Rude's album, The Ska and the Abstract Truth, evokes happy head nodding to the tunes found on Oliver Nelson's masterpiece Blues and the Abstract Truth ...
Ska emerged on the British music scene in 1964, when Prince Buster, the greatest of the Jamaican Blue Beat artists - who later inspired Madness - appeared on the British music TV programme "Ready ...
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