This Is Ska - Complete Documentary

In the late 1950s, Ska emerged from the Mento sound. This style of music came about because musicians now began to play around with the sound adding a little calypso here and there as well as some American Jazz, some Rhythm and Blues (R&B) etc. Little did they know that it would have taken the Jamaican sound from Mento to what we know today as SKA!!...
List of songs in video:
Jamaican Ska - Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
Sammy Dead-O - Eric 'Monty' Morris
One Eyed Jack - Jimmy Cliff
Wash Wash - Prince Buster
Treat Me Bad - The Maytals
She Will Never Let You Down - The Maytals
So Marie - The Charmers
Rough 'N' Tough - Stranger Cole
Two Roads Before Me - Roy & Yvonne
I Don't Know - The Blues Busters
Sammy Dead-O - Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
King Of Kings - Jimmy Cliff
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This is NOT my video...it is just for educational purposes...

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Imagine going back in this era of live ska and just start skankin’ on the dance floor

[@bikerscout2012]

Spirit 69 Skinhead here. Oi! And thanks for posting! Sometimes Antisocial, Always Antifascist!

[@michaeldyer5978]

If I could time travel this party would be the first place I would go.

[@ioxxd90]

A Couple of weeks ago, my cousin gave me a bag full of 45's. Many of which I already had, but one record I never heard. Jamaica Ska by The Ska Kings on Atlantic. I played it and loved it instantly. There were two copies of that 45 in that bag...I posted it on Instagram and one guy told me how much he was looking for that record. I told him I had an extra copy!! I love this music

[@cruzanbum3108]

Being from the Caribbean, this is a far cry from a documentary explaining how ska became a staple of music eventually becoming reggae and it should be pulled from the internet.

[@gauloise6442]

It's a taped concert not a documentary about the history of ska

[@cleverstar4429]

Wats ya point😂

[@Oliviux78]

That’s how you dance to ska. I guess we’ve been doing it all wrong.

[@MrFairbanksak1]

The original Ska dance was quite a bit different from modern Ska dance, called skanking. Of course, modern Ska went through a revival, where it became convoluted with influences from punk-rock.

[@play-xz5hi]

Jamaican Ska and Skanking dance movements are from two different evolutions of Jamaican music. Ska is the earliest period of Jamaican popular music starting at Jamaica's independence. Ska is celebratory, fast, and happy. Skanking was a slowed-down pace. It came with the admiration of bad men in gangster films like James Bond, Oceans 11, and Westerns. Low-income youth flooded the moves to follow the actions of American crime culture which developed the rude boy style of dress and attitude. This influence saw the start of petty crime in Jamaica as youth idolized characters like Al Capone, Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood, etc, as heroes. The stance of skanking was more adversarial, threatening, and daunting, praising success through nefarious deeds, moving from Ska, through Rock Steady ( which was very short) into the early reggae era. These are different dance styles, moods, and attitudes as the music evolved.
Through Jamaican immigration to England, Ska was convoluted with influences from Punk Rockers when British youth attended Underground Jamaican parties in London and started interpreting the music.

[@iring_sungkaban]

And this is how the reggae started.

[@StrengththruOi]

Reggae was before ska

[@iring_sungkaban]

@@StrengththruOi Nope,
see SKA.
Ska (/skɑː/; Jamaican: [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.[

[@slimpyman]

This is definitely what is up

[@MrFairbanksak1]

Whew, that Ska dance is a workout. I'm sweating already, lol

[@cleverstar4429]

Sombody needs to put this in colour❤

[@rootsrock2394]

"A similar action to rowing a boat" 🤔🤣

[@tadweird1766]

😉

[@johnnysmith9755]

This is just epic. Cheers Jim BD for the recommendation 👌

[@DangerDave-e7u]

Pick it up. Pick it up. Pick it up.

[@mayena]

Was it more influenced by African-American Rhythm and Blues?.

[@russelladams6517]

Yes

[@drealinskiabel]

I don't care what how you pair your dancers to demonstrate the dance for us, what those two dudes at 6:00 are doing sure ain't rowing...

[@Gaba.Groove]

😂😂😂

[@busterbloodvessel4147]

Would we have moshing or slam dancing without the sky?

[@bernardcuthbert2174]

Not Sky. It's Ska.

[@busterbloodvessel4147]

@@bernardcuthbert2174 thanx your the best

[@Mrbrbusby]

Carry-go-bring-come Rudi

[@newtonforrest8195]

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[@DjMicr0dot]

Is this for real? What year did this come out and what publication? I've never heard of any of this before & I'm a religious ska advocate

[@rogerpeachey2212]

1959.the skatalites have also done this track ,and they are still going today,although probably not the original line up .go on you tube and search for good old Jamaican ska,the original ska.people like prince buster .

[@soph3420]

The Jamaican immigrants to England brought it with them.

[@BrusselsVinyl]

Hello thanks for this pearl. You know where does it comes from ?

[@SimplyUniqueeTeacher]

Brussels Vinyl Moment Jamaica

[@jeremyferguson4772]

That band was not worthy. Where were the Skatalites?

[@bernardcuthbert2174]

The Skatalites Should've Been The Band Instead Of The Dragonaires.