Meaning Of The Word Ska

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ska in American English
a form of dance music, originally from Jamaica, characterized by the use of saxophones and brass, a heavily accented offbeat, and the influence of New Orleans rhythm and blues, jazz, and calypso
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

ska in British English
noun: 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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