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2 Tone Records. reggae rock. Two-tone or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock[citation needed] and ska revival, [1] is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements of punk rock and new wave music. [1] Its name derives from 2 Tone Records, a record ...
Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: 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 ...
Ska Revival. Ska evolved in the early '60s, when Jamaicans tried to replicate the sound of the New Orleans R&B they heard over their radios. Instead of mimicking the sound of the R&B, the first ska artists developed a distinctive rhythmic and melodic sensibility, which eventually turned into reggae music. In the late '70s, a number of young ...
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Although the ska revival bands never became stars outside of the U.K., they did become major cult figures in the U.S. and inspired several generations of musicians to form similar bands. This wave of ska revivalists was equally inspired by hardcore punk and heavy metal, thereby stripping out much of the R&B groove that informed the original ska and 2-Tone artists.
When the dust cleared from England’s late-’70s punk explosion, the music that emerged was just as daring but more eclectic. Take the ska revival popular in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Also known as ska’s second wave, the UK-centric movement drew on the rippling rhythms and dubby beats that drove the Jamaican ska and reggae scenes of the ’50s and ’60s.
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Jun 17, 2021 · The ska revival is here, but ska never really went away. We Are the Union is, clockwise from top, Ricky Weber, Reade Wolcott, Brandon Benson, Jer Hunter and Brent Friedman. (Rae Mystic) The ...
