ska

[ skah ]

noun
  1. 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.

Origin of ska

1
First recorded in 1960–65; of obscure origin

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British Dictionary definitions for ska

ska

/ (skɑː) /


noun
  1. a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar

Origin of ska

1
C20: origin unknown

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