ska
The sound system concept first became popular in the 1940s, in the parish of Kingston, Jamaica.
Ska emerged in the late 1950s in connection with the traveling discotheques.
Boogie-woogie and piano improvisations of New Orleans rhythm & blues influenced this music with its syncopated guitar, piano, and brass playing on the offbeat.
Ska rhythm is marked by a strong beat on the second and fourth beats of the measure.
Some cuban-jamaican figures at the origin of ska music : Ernest Ranglin, Derrick Morgan, Prince Buster, Toots Hibbert, Justin Hinds, Laurel Aitken, Desmond Dekker.
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Music labels
Island Records (now owned by Universal Music Group) was founded in Jamaica by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in 1959.
Trojan Records was founded in 1968 when Lee Gopthal pooled his Jamaican music interests with those of Chris Blackwell’s Island Records.
Blackwell also pioneered reggae to wider audiences the UK and the US beginning in the mid 1970s with releases from Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, Inner Circle, Dillinger, Black Uhuru, Third World, Aswad, Max Romeo, Justin Hines, Sly and Robbie and Lee Perry.
He also formed Mango Records, which featured Jamaican and other artists from the Third World.
Mango introduced Salif Keita, Baaba Maal, Gibson Brothers, Angélique Kidjo, King Sunny Adé and many others.
