ska
[skah]
- 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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Compare reggae, rock steady.
Origin of ska
First recorded in 1960–65; of obscure origin
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Examples from the Web for ska
Historical Examples
Ska man' dros, or Scamander—a river of the Troad or plains of Troy.
Ho som so gjilt kan po Langoleik spelo,Svanaug den vena, ska no væra mi!
Strife and PeaceFredrika Bremer
What I want is to drive every pony across the Wakon and up the Ska valley, where we'll find support.
Under FireCharles King
ska
- a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
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Word Origin
C20: origin unknown
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Word Origin and History for ska
n.
1964, Jamaican, of unknown origin.
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