Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation (Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00FADA9YY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 281 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Perfect introduction to the history and impact of ska C. Benoit A wide-ranging, well-written introduction to ska - from its African roots and Jamaican inception to the 2Tone era in England, the NYC and West Coast sounds and today's world-wide ska scene. A perfect companion book to her excellent biography on Skatalites' Don Drummond. But read this one fir
(Popdose)Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation belongs in any popular music history collection and considers the genre of ska and its evolution from Afro-Caribbean roots to England and the U.S. While other books have been written about the “2 Tone” movement that took place in England in the late ’70′s, this is a much deeper, fact finding volume that traces ska’s roots back to slavery.This painstakingly researched work deserves not only attention but a seeking out by anyone who has an affinity and love of ska or a true musicologist. Ska music, often recognized as the precursor to reggae, originated in Jamaica in the 1950s, achieved worldwide popularity in the ’70s and ’80s, and remains influential today. The volume includes a time line, a section of references and resources, and an index. As such, it's a recommendation for music and social issues shelves alike! (Midwest Book Review
In Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation, Heather Augustyn examines how ska music first emerged in Jamaica as a fusion of popular, traditional, and even classical musical forms. Devotees of reggae, jazz, pop, Latin music, hip hop, rock, techno, dance, and world beat will find their appreciation of this remarkable genre deepened by this survey of the origins and spread of ska.. Ska would later travel with West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, where British youth embraced the music, blending it with punk and pop and working its origins as a music of protest and escape into their present lives. As series editor and pop music scholar Scott Calhoun notes: “Like a cultural barometer, the rise of ska indicates when and where social, political, and economic institutions disappoint their people and push them to re-invent the process for making meaning out of life. Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial origins to the shores of England and back across the Atlantic to the United States. When a people or group embark on this process, it becomes even more necessary to embrace expressive, liberating forms of art for help during the struggle. The fervor of the music matched the energy of the streets as racism, poverty, and violence ran rampant. In its history as a mu
Heather Augustyn is the author of Ska: An Oral History and Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World’s Greatest Trombonist. She is a newspaper reporter for the Times of Northwest Indiana, an elementary-school writing teacher, and she lives with her husband and two boys in northwest Indiana.