The History Of Ska Music

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lling to selling potatoes and how a profit could be made. Despite his business ethical philosophy, through out the 1960s, he built a large catalog on Jamaican artists that made him the market leader of Jamaican Music in Britain. Many people believe that his success coincided with the independence and the departure of the British from Jamaica in 1962.
There seemed to be a new attitude toward the music of Jamaica and the music of ska gained enormous popularity. One reason that may have caused the popularization may be that the music seemed to exploit American music since producers attempted to export it to the rest of the world, which was supported by the government. The national music of Jamaica was demonstrated to the world at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York of the United States. The Jamaican delegates included Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster and both dancers Ronnie Nasralla and Jeannette Phillips, who taught the world the “skank” dance moves.
The effect of the social movement that ska created was durin...