MOD AND SKA ICONS 11 OZ COFFEE MUG PUNK ROCK RYTHM BRITAIN UK GERMANY JAZZ 1950S for Sale

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MOD AND SKA ICONS 11 OZ COFFEE MUG PUNK ROCK RYTHM BRITAIN UK GERMANY JAZZ 1950S For Sale

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MOD AND SKA ICONS 11 OZ COFFEE MUG PUNK ROCK RYTHM BRITAIN UK GERMANY JAZZ 1950S:
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Ska (/ˈskɑː/, Jamaican [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.[1] Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off-beat. Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement \"Coxsone\" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm & blues and then began recording their own songs.[2] Some suggest ska dates to earlier times, however. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.[3][4]

Mod is a subculture that began in London in 1958 which spread throughout Great Britain and, in varying degrees, to other countries[1] and continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz,[2] although the subculture expanded to include women