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ska

[ skah ]

noun

  1. a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.


ska

/ skɑː /

noun

  1. a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ska1

First recorded in 1960–65; of obscure origin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ska1

C20: origin unknown
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Example Sentences

When Vampire Weekend started out, one aspect of the band’s project was recontextualizing certain styles that perhaps had fallen out of vogue — the ska elements, for instance, that feature prominently on the group’s self-titled 2008 debut, which came out in the wake of the New York garage-rock revival.

“It’s something about that ska beat and the drums coming in and that’s the song that the fans associate with the game,” Hawk said.

She’ll occasionally try a more conscious change like performing “Something to Talk About” with a ska beat on one tour.

Bat Commander of the neo-new wave/ska/punk/synth-pop superhero band the Aquabats!

Hendrikson - co-founder of ska band The Selecter - was diagnosed with cancer in 2023 and died in June, aged 73.

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