The_History_Of_Ska_Music

The History Of Ska Music The music genre ska originated in the island of Jamaica and caused a social movement like that of many other types of music. Ska came from the music genre of mento. It was born out of the fusion of combining musical elements of both mento and jazz. The combined musical elements that produced a new style initially were called “Shuffle,” in Britain. Recording studios were always on the look out for the next new sound. With the popularity of American artists, Jamaican performers incorporated blues chord progressions and boogie bass lines with mento guitar rhythm. An increase of emphasis was placed primarily on the offbeat rhythm of mento, which eventually became shorter and more detached. Percussion came in on the second and fourth beats, which carried the blues and swing beat of American music, while the guitar emphasized the up of the second, third, and fourth beat. This distinction of syncopated rhythm sounded was referred as the new style of music known as ska. During the 1920's-1930's, the local band scene in Jamaica was that of mento music. Mento was a type of music commonly known as rural music music, ska, bands, social, sound, two, rude, time, even, style, during, tone, jamaican, jamaica, first, boys, wave, played, new, movement, britain, because, record, mento, label, specials, out, both, became, united, song, popular, people, musical, known