The eeriest element on “Ska Cubano,” the debut release of the new Cumbancha world music label, is not the counterintuitive fusion of Jamaican ska’s scratchy, frequently manic meter with Cuba’s more ...
SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso and rhythm and blues, it was a precursor to rocksteady and what is now called reggae. SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso ...
Ska emerged in Jamaica as a kind of ham-fisted combination of American rhythm and blues and Caribbean folk styles, such as calypso and mento, in the late '50s, but it flourished after the former ...