| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 163 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Tempo : a Scarecrow Press music series on rock, pop, and culture |
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Tempo (Lanham, Md.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index. |
| Contents |
Stoking the fire -- Music is my occupation -- Freedom sound -- Out of many, one people -- Winter of discontent -- British ska in a fractured nation -- East side beat -- Ska in the key of sunshine -- Ska boom and ska bust -- Ska all over the world. |
| Summary |
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. As a genre, it was a connection to Africa, a means of expression and protest, and a respite from the struggles of colonization and grinding poverty. 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 pr. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Ska (Music) -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Ska (Music) (OCoLC)fst01119873
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Augustyn, Heather. Ska : the rhythm of liberation. Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, 2013 9780810884496 (DLC) 2013016566 (OCoLC)842307569 |
| ISBN |
9780810884502 (electronic bk.) |
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081088450X (electronic bk.) |
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