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Ska

Features fast tempos, lead horns, and skanking piano and guitar putting emphasis on the backbeat, giving ska a trademark jerky liveliness. Earliest internationally successful style of Jamaican popular music. Incorporates a variety of influences, ranging from New Orleans R&B, jump blues, and jazz to Jamaican mento and Caribbean calypso. Rocksteady and its descendant, reggae, developed as a slower evolution of ska. Ska has spawned international subgenres mingled with punk in the UK and US which maintain the fast tempo and horns of ska, such as 2-Tone and Third Wave.

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Parents	Reggae	Features an offbeat staccato feel, halftime one drop drum grooves, and socially conscious lyrics. Influenced by mid-century American R&B and jazz, Jamaican ska, and traditional Jamaican music such as mento. Emerged in Jamaica, particularly around Kingston, in the late 1960s. Notable artists include Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, and Count Ossie.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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