• TawdryPorker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ska is simple, fun music that cares little for anything other than being fun, and is often gleefully immature.

    Ska, as youngsters know it today, was reinvented by the 2-Tone movement in the UK (specifically Coventry) in the late 70s. The scene was overtly political and as @NuPNuA has stated was a deliberately multicultural movement, hence the name.

    If you want to hear some original ska from Jamaica then have a look for songs by Prince Buster but beware you will find some historical attitudes.