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. Without ska music, there would be no
reggae or Bob Marley, no British punk and pop blends, no American
soundtrack to its various subcultures. 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 present lives.
The fervor of the music matched the energy of the streets as
racism, poverty, and violence ran rampant. But ska called for
brotherhood and unity. 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. 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.
In its history as a music of freedom, ska has itself flowed freely
to wherever people are celebrating the rhythms and sounds of hope."
Ska: The Rhythm Liberation should appeal to fans and scholars
alike-indeed, any enthusiast of popular music and Caribbean,
American, and British history seeking to understand the fascinating
relationship between indigenous popular music and cultural and
political history. 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.
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