Pocket Guide to Ska

With its walking bass lines and accentuated offbeat cadences, Ska was music made for dancing. Originating in the late-Fifties, Skas First Wave was soon washing up on Britains shores, where it would take root. Years later, in Coventry, a disaffected art student named Jerry Dammers fused Skas up-tempo melodies with the harder elements of punk to create music that took Britain by storm. This book tells the story of Skas birth in Jamaica to its rebirth and beyond in Seventies Britain. See more