The Dead Straight Pocket Guide To Ska Paperback
Catalogue No:9781911346678
Barcode:9781911346678
Weight:328g
Dimensions:198 x 32 x 130 (mm)
Number of Items:1
Manufacturer:RED PLANET BOOKS
352pp, Black & White illustrations.
Size: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight 330g
Ska originated in Jamaica in the late Fifties and combined Caribbean mento
and calypso with American jazz and r ’n’ b.
Ska developed in the Sixties with artists such as Prince Buster, Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd,
and Duke Reid who formed sound systems
to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs.
Ska was popular with British mods and was later adopted by many skinheads.
As music changed in the US, so did ska. In 1965 and 1966, when
American soul music became slower and smoother,
ska changed its sound accordingly and developed into rocksteady befor
evolving again from 1968 into reggae.
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