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ska
[ skah ]
/ skɑ /
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noun
a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.
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Origin of ska
First recorded in 1960–65; of obscure origin
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ska
/ (skɑː) /
noun
a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
Word Origin for ska
C20: origin unknown
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