: popular music of Jamaican origin that combines elements of traditional Caribbean rhythms and jazz
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Ska Weekend Space Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden Connecticut had a thriving ska/punk scene back in the 1990s, largely based around the Tune Inn club in downtown New Haven.
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024
The band, which rose to fame in the early '90s due to their unique fusion of rock, punk, rap, ska, and reggae, is releasing Friday its first original studio track since frontman Bradley Nowell’s death from a heroin overdose 28 years ago, according to Rolling Stone.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
The British ska/pop band’s first U.S. tour in 12 years features guests Berlin and the Untouchables.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
Starring Michelle Dockery, Nicholas Pinnock and David Dawson, the story of a family and four young people drawn into Coventry and Birmingham’s exploding ska and two-tone music scene in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 14 May 2024
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024
The band, which rose to fame in the early '90s due to their unique fusion of rock, punk, rap, ska, and reggae, is releasing Friday its first original studio track since frontman Bradley Nowell’s death from a heroin overdose 28 years ago, according to Rolling Stone.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
The British ska/pop band’s first U.S. tour in 12 years features guests Berlin and the Untouchables.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
Starring Michelle Dockery, Nicholas Pinnock and David Dawson, the story of a family and four young people drawn into Coventry and Birmingham’s exploding ska and two-tone music scene in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 14 May 2024
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ska
noun
: popular music of Jamaican origin that combines elements of traditional Caribbean rhythms and jazz
Etymology
perhaps an alteration of scat "jazz singing with meaningless syllables"
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