A POLITICAL beat has run through ska music since its creation in Kingston in the late 1950s. It was music to dance to—an up-tempo fusion of horns, Rastafarian drumming, American jazz and rhythm and ...
A quick Google search for ska music reveals that it started in Jamaica in the 1950s, had a second wave of popularity in England in the late-1970s, and finally caught on, to a lesser degree, in the ...
It was born in the ghettos of Jamaica in the late 1950s with its walking bass lines and its mix of Caribbean mento. Later fused with traditional American R&B and offbeat British colonial swagger, ska ...