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5 QUOTES WITH «SKA»
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When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKA»
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"This book tells the story of ska music and its development from Jamaica to England, where the music took on a distinctively different tone, and finally to the rest of the world.
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Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch
For both students and scholars, many consider this book the best contemporary introduction to the Pentateuch."--Publisher's website.
3
Caribbean Popular Music: An Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, ...
Explore the singers, songwriters, history, culture, and even fashions of reggae and Caribbean music in this extensive A-Z encyclopedia appropriate for college and high school students as well as anyone who loves reggae music.
David Vlado Moskowitz, 2006
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Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials
Written with wry humour, taking an affectionate look at a band whose sublime music remains influential today, this is a must for all Specials fans. 'I found myself laughing out loud whilst revisiting some long forgotten memories . . .
5
Reggae, Rasta, revolution: Jamaican music from
ska to dub
The first ever anthology on the Jamaican popular music forms that have changed the shape of Western popular music. Beginning with Bob Marley, the book explores the roots of Jamaican pop from mento, ska, calypso, and rock steady.
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The Exegesis of the Pentateuch: Exegetical Studies and Basic ...
The studies collected in this book represent landmarks in the vast exegetical landscape of the Pentateuch. In the first series of these studies, Jean-Louis Ska examines key texts from different perspectives and draws a map to show the way.
7
Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control
These political tensions coincided with the emergence of a new musical form
known as ska. Ska was a mixture of mento, a Jamaican indigenous musical form,
American jazz, and rhythm and blues. 1 On the surface, ska was a happy, content
...
8
Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music
No one can say exactly when the first ska record was created, but at some point it
became obvious that the music the session men were playing just didn't sound
like 'regular' R&B anymore. Alton Ellis sums up the process: 'In those days there ...
Kevin O'Brien Chang, Wayne Chen, 1998
9
Roots Rock Reggae: The Oral History of Reggae Music from
Ska ...
Explores the stylistic variations of reggae music and interviews many of raggae's most influential artists
10
And the Word Became Flesh
In this book you will discover that God's word became flesh.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKA»
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ska is used in the context of the following news items.
SKA St. Petersburg coach Andrei Nazarov hit team doctor five times …
The team doctor from SKA St. Petersburg said he was hospitalized with a head injury, concussion and a bruised chest after a physical altercation with ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
Recalling the Legends of Ska
BRAD Klein loves to describe himself as a 'student of ska, a student of reggae'. Some of what he has learned over the years is in Legends of Ska, a documentary ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
SKA, world's largest radio telescope, will be based in the UK
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope is so large it will spread across two continents and be comprised of 2,500 dishes and one million antennas. «Wired.co.uk, Apr 15»
Ilya Kovalchuk scores twice as SKA St. Petersburg wins Gagarin Cup
KAZAN, Russia -- Ilya Kovalchuk led SKA St. Petersburg to its first Kontinental Hockey League title Sunday as the team clinched a 4-1 series victory over Ak Bars ... «ESPN, Apr 15»
SKA body agrees on design of radio telescope's phase 1
THE Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation board has agreed upon the design of the first phase of the €650m radio telescope. The SKA is an international ... «BDlive, Mar 15»
SOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Ska is very much alive at Johnny D's
A quick Google search for ska music reveals that it started in Jamaica in the 1950s, had a second wave of popularity in England in the late-1970s, and finally ... «MetroWest Daily News, Jan 15»
A telescope is born: Australia SKA Pathfinder
It may look like just dots on a page, but an image of distant galaxies taken last week represents a huge step forward for CSIRO's Australia SKA Pathfinder ... «Phys.Org, Jun 14»
SKA upbeat, despite Germany's withdrawal
Germany has pulled out of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation, a blow to the project that plans to build the world's largest radio telescope. But while ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jun 14»
SKA to 'transform perceptions of Africa'
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will transform perceptions of Africa, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said on Wednesday, ... «South Africa.info, Mar 14»
Square-kilometre radio telescope wins millions in UK funding
UK science minister David Willetts has announced £11m of funding to help the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) process the expected deluge of data it will produce ... «Register, Mar 14»
