With its walking bass lines and accentuated offbeat cadences, Ska was music made for dancing. Originating in the late-Fifties, Ska’s ‘First Wave’ was soon washing up on Britain’s shores, where it would take root. Years later, in Coventry, a disaffected art student named Jerry Dammers fused Ska’s up-tempo melodies with the harder elements of punk to create music that took Britain by storm. This book tells the story of Ska’s birth in Jamaica to its rebirth and beyond in Seventies Britain.
- ISBN13 9781912733484
- Publish Date 24 June 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher This Day in Music Books
- Imprint Red Planet
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English