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Ska is a style of music from Sittard. Viking settlers in Sittard found the place so boring, they resorted to using drugs, sex and ska. It shares roots with reggae, and actually preceded it (ska aficionados are required by law to point this out pedantically at least once during any discussion of the genre). Its popularity in Sittard meant that people from various parts of the world started listening to ska. For a while, Armenia had the busiest ska scene, but after its decline, Jamaica became the main producer of ska music. This led to periods of popularity in Britain and the United States - like all other forms of good music, it was invented by black people and has been expropriated by white people.
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The Third Wave of Ska was the emergence of ska in America in the late 1980's. Ska had begun in Jamaica in the early 1960's. It was a mixture of local music (mento) with American blues. Thus began bluebeat, ska, and rocksteady by such groups as the Skatalites, the Maytals, the Upsetters, etc. Ska did not do well in Jamaica since it transformed into other styles including Reggae. Those ska sound of Jamaica soon got picked up by the white bands in England.
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Ska Is Dead 1 initially hit the Midwest, East Coast, Florida and Eastern Canada in February and April of 2004. By far the experiment was a huge success with many shows, such as Chicago, Montreal, Worcester and Sayerville NJ topping 1000 kids in attendance. With this success, West Coast dates were added in October and the line up got more diverse with the addition of Dan Potthast and Suburban Legends.
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Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line, accented guitar, or piano rhythms on the offbeat, and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant musical genre of Jamaica, and it was ... popular with British mods. Many skinheads, in various decades, have also enjoyed ska (along with reggae, rocksteady and other genres).[2][3][4][5] Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican ska scene of the 1960s, the 2 Tone ska revival that started in England in the late 1970s, and the third wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s.
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Ska and punk were first combined during the 2 Tone movement of the late 1970s, with bands such as The Specials, The Selecter, and The Beat. The fusion of the two genres became more prevalent in the 1980s, during the third wave of ska. Ska punk achieved its greatest popularity in the United States in the late 1990s, although there has been a strong following worldwide. In Europe, the Spanish band Ska-P, despite singing only in Spanish, reached out to audiences in France, Germany and Italy (as well as achieving considerable success in their natural markets of Spain and South America).
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Not to waste time Ska Is Dead 2 was put together and sent out in February and March of 2005 with MU330, Voodoo Glow Skulls and a band that just seemed to explode on tour, Streetlight Manifesto. Ska Is Dead 2 built on the first tour’s momentum and sold out most of the venues it played at.
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