Ska & rock steady were precursors of the Jamaican musical style that developed in the late 1960s
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Reggae - Wikipedia  Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes ... The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rock steady; from the latter, reggae took .... Reggae developed from Ska and rocksteady in the 1960s. ..... rhythmic vocal style, and is generally considered to be a precursor to rap.
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Ska - Wikipedia  Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. ... In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. ... These recordings were initially made to be played on "Soft Wax" (a lacquer on metal disc acetate later...
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BBC - GCSE Bitesize: 1960s Jamaica - ska and rocksteady  1960s Jamaican music has had a big influence on mainstream pop music. The dance styles ska and rocksteady were the precursors of reggae.
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History of Reggae | - The Reggaskas  Reggae is a genre of music that has its roots in a number of other musical styles. ... are Ska and Rocksteady, popular in Jamaica during the 1950s and early 1960s. ... This style is very close to Reggae and the dividing line between Rocksteady and ... Jamaica at the time, and lyrics of Reggae songs quickly developed a more...
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Rocksteady - Wikipedia  Cultural origins, Mid-1960s Jamaica. Typical instruments. Bass  drums  guitar  organ  brass instrument  melodica. Derivative forms, Reggae. Other topics. Music of Jamaica. Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966. A successor of ska and a precursor to reggae, rocksteady was performed by ... Dances performed to rocksteady were less energetic than the earlier ska...
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A historic ROCKIN' song . . . The Beatles - Rockin' Down the ...  Feb 22, 2007 ... McCartney's inspiration for the song could have been Alf Bicknell, chauffeur to the Beatles at the height of their fame. Bicknell began working for...
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Progressive rock - Wikipedia  Progressive rock is a diverse subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom and ..... Bill Bruford, a veteran of several progressive rock bands, said that Sgt. ... Martin writes that in 1968, "full-blown progressive rock" was not yet in .... in rock music until the strong Italian progressive rock scene developed in the...
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Origins of rock and roll - Wikipedia  Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. ... Various recordings that date back to the 1940s have been named as the first .... of "Rock Me" with Lucky Millinder's band, as "rock-and-roll spiritual singing", and on October 3, 1942, he described Count Basie's "It's Sand, Man!
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October 3, 2008  ... for it thesaurus discjockey101.com says this term for rap music & culture came from DJs jumping between turntables hip-hop;hip hop;hiphop J. Langdon Down...
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bob marley - Search-ID.com  Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945  May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican ... He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae ... Bob Marley; RT @UnCuriosoDice: "No te tomes la vida tan en serio.
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Back to The 60's DJ Dance Jacumba Saturday, 27 February  Events San Diego > Jacumba > 2/27 > Back to the 60's DJ Dance De Anza ... were to grow up in the 1960sSchool dances and the dance crazes during that period ... the first major international rock and roll dance style in which the couples did .... kinda like the twist Pretend you're in the water and you go like this Now baby...
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Ska - Wikipedia  Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. ... Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound .... The drums were taken from traditional Jamaican drumming and marching styles.
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Disco - Wikipedia  Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. It achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Its initial audiences in the U.S. were club-goers from the gay, African ... Disco was a key influence on the 1980s electronic dance music style called House. Disco has had several...
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Rock music - Wikipedia  Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in ... Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide .... Since the term rock began to be used in preference to rock and roll from the ...... in the later 1970s included Queen, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith and AC/DC.
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American popular music - Wikipedia  American popular music has had a profound effect on music across the world. The country has ..... Rock and roll is a kind of popular music, developed primarily out of country, blues .... style first called "old-timey" or "hillbilly" music began to be broadcast and recorded in ...... The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll.
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British Invasion - Wikipedia  The British Invasion was a phenomenon that occurred in the mid-1960s when rock and pop ... Young British groups started to combine various British and American styles, ... becoming the first record by a British group to reach number one on the US Hot 100. ..... Jump up ^ "I Understand Them (A Love Song To The Beatles)".
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Acid rock - Wikipedia  Acid rock is a loosely defined type of rock music which emerged during the 1960s psychedelic ... Certain garage rock and 1960s punk rock bands would be associated with ... As the psychedelic movement progressed into the late 1960s and 1970s, ... roots-oriented sounds in late 1968, acid-rock bands mutated into heavy...
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African-American music - Wikipedia  African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical ... The modern genres of blues and ragtime were developed during the late ... African-American musicians developed related styles such as Rhythm and ... In the late 18th century folk spirituals originated among Southern slaves,...
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Forgotten New Wave Vinyl: CLASSIC SONG & LYRICS - Free ...  Dec 10, 2013 ... I must admit that in the early 80s, even though the South African situation was ... The original Specials ska 2-tone band had splintered by 1982, but under Jerry ... Twenty-one years in captivity ... Are you so deaf that you cannot hear his plea ... Below is my personal listing of 100 Essential New Wave Songs...
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Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim (Capitol, 1974) | 7 Inches of 70s Pop  Jul 5, 2012 ... Andy Kim was racking up some hits in the late 60s into the decade's turn ... but it was his co-write of the Archies' Sugar Sugar that brought him those bags of dough ... picked it up and pushed the tune until it was #1 on September 28, 1974 ... love Sugar Sugar but had no idea at the time that Andy co-wrote it).
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Mod (subculture) - Wikipedia  Mod is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and spread, in varying .... As many British rock bands of the mid-1960s began to adopt a mod look and ... By now, mod was thought of more as a general youth-culture style rather than .... Many female mods dressed androgynously, with short haircuts, men's...