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Ska and reggae are distinguishable

June 9, 2016 by Archived posts 264 Comments

By Rafael Velasquez |Staff Writer| The terms "reggae" and "ska" are often interchanged to denote similar genres in the 21st Century, but they are quite distinct. The average reggae listener will often refer to Bob Marley while the average ska listener will often refer to Sublime as the most influential artists in both genres. They are both very influential, but there were other artists who were even more responsible for the foundations of ska and reggae. Ska is "a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the '50s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratch-like tempo, and jazz-like horn … [Read more...] about Ska and reggae are distinguishable

Filed Under: Arts and Entertainment Tagged With: Arts & Entertainment, Bob Marley, calypso, evolution of ska, First Wave ska, Fourth Wave ska, Island Records, Jamaican sound, One Love, reggae, rocksteady, Second Wave ska, Ska, skanking, Smoke Two Joints, Sublime, The Skatalites, The Toyes, Third Wave ska

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