jamaican ska

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska



Ska is a music genera that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rock steady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the offbeat. Ska first became popular with the "rude boys", a sub culture that existed in Jamaica at the time. Rude boys wore three piece suits and ties to imitate gangsters in America . They were delinquents and known for getting into trouble with the law. this period is known as the first wave of ska, as it is when it first became popular. as Jamaica was still part of the British empire until 1962, and because of the poverty in Jamaica for people of African decent, there was allot of emigration to Brattain. This is how ska traveled to Britain

Introduction

Iv made this blog as a school project and my teacher told me to do it on something I'm interested in, so.....ska. this blog is on the geography of ska and how it has influenced music as it traveled around the world.