. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with
jazz and rhythm and blues.
is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the offbeat. It was developed in
in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play
rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s,
.
the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s; the
2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain, which fused Jamaican
ska rhythms and melodies with the faster tempos and harder edge of
punk rock forming
ska-
punk; and third wave
ska, which involved
bands from a wide range of countries around the world, in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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