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Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation Hardcover - 2013

by Heather Augustyn


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In Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation, Heather Augustyn examines how ska music first emerged in Jamaica as a fusion of popular, traditional, and even classical musical forms. As a genre, it was a connection to Africa, a means of expression and protest, and a respite from the struggles of colonization and grinding poverty. Ska would later travel with West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, where British youth embraced the music, blending it with punk and pop and working its origins as a music of protest and escape into their present lives. The fervor of the music matched the energy of the streets as racism, poverty, and violence ran rampant. But ska called for brotherhood and unity.

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  • Title Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation
  • Author Heather Augustyn
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scarecrow Press
  • Date 2013-09-12
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780810884496 / 0810884496
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ska (Music) - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013016566
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.646

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2014, Page 51

About the author

Heather Augustyn is the author of Ska: An Oral History and Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist. She is a newspaper reporter for the Times of Northwest Indiana, an elementary-school writing teacher, and she lives with her husband and two boys in northwest Indiana.
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