ska
Noun
Meaning
ska (uncountable)
(music) A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
SKA (plural SKAs)
(astronomy) Initialism of Square Kilometer Array.
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
...but defining their sound was Little Girls, an exuberant ska wrapped in an electronic patina, with modernist vocals à la XTC and a touch of dementia.
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
2004–10: The Dangermen and The Liberty of Norton Folgate main Madness performing live at Bimbos in 2005 In 2004, the band played a series of low-key concerts as The Dangermen, performing covers of classic reggae and ska songs.
Boot, Adrian & Salewicz, Chris (1995) "Bob Marley: Songs of Freedom", Bloomsbury Jackie Mittoo insisted that the musicians called the rhythm Staya Staya, and that it was Byron Lee who introduced the term "ska".
Clarke, Sebastien "Jah Music: the Evolution of the Popular Jamaican Song" Derrick Morgan said: "Guitar and piano making a ska sound, like 'ska, ska," Augustyn, Heather (2010).