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ska
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ska  (skä)
n.
Popular music originating in Jamaica in the 1960s, having elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, and calypso and marked by a fast tempo and a strongly accented offbeat.
[From the phrase (Love) Ska(voovie), greeting used by Jamaican bassist Cluet Johnson, one of the early creators of ska, or imitative of the sound of a guitar in tandem with a rim click on a snare drum.]
ska [skɑː]
n
(Music / Pop Music) a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
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