SKA

Ska is a kind of music created in 60’s by Rude Boys in Jamaica, Rude Boys wear smoking and a blac had, they were black people who wants to had the apparence of the rich people. This kind of music is like soul and reggae, but had more ritm.
During the times, this kind of music have been changed having more ritm and a lot of variances, you can see the difference comparing bands of the statrting of this ritm, that are very similar than reggae and soul with the bands that have bornt recently, that have a lot of changes of ritm and parts of punk or rock.
In Catalonia, the pioners of this music were Skatalà, Dr. Calypso or Discípulos de Otilia, that play a music more quit but there are songs more speeds, ska has resurged in the lasts times, with bands like Skalariak (Basque Country), Salida Nula (Madrid) or Deskarats (Catalonia).
In ska concerts there are a lot of rude boys, or red skins, that have the aparience of skinheads but they are not nazis, they are antinazis, they think that they are the original skinheads, appeared in U.K . in 80’s. They can be comunist, anarchist, nationalist,.. but they have a common objective: fight against nazis.
In conclusion, ska is the music of rude boys, that have becamed skinheads, and the music have changed to be more ritmic and more political letters.


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