#558 Ska & Opinions on Jamila Woods

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1950s, Jamaican musicians blended home-grown rhythms with R&B to create ska. The genre's influence quickly spread across the globe, paving the way for the reggae phenomenon. Jim and Greg explore the history of ska from its island origins to its British revival to its most recent punk incarnation. Plus, a review of the debut album from poet and soul singer Jamila Woods.

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0:00.0	There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. Are you ready to get your world rocked?
0:20.0	Are you ready to get your world rocked? Ready?
0:21.0	Are you ready to get your mind blown?
0:24.0	Do it!
0:25.0	One, two, three, first! Born in the dance halls of 1950s Jamaica, Scott continues to be revived and reinvented across the globe.
0:43.4	I'm Greg Kot.
0:44.5	And I'm Jim Deeregatus.
0:45.9	We'll present a genre dissection of all three waves of ska.
0:49.7	Plus we'll review the debut album from Chance the Rapper's
0:52.4	collaborator, Jamila Woods.
0:54.5	That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.
1:01.3	This is Sound Opinions, and Greg, from time to time we like to do what we call a genre
1:05.3	dissection digging deep into a sound that people may think they know but maybe
1:10.0	they don't know the roots of it or maybe people are getting exposed to it for the first time.
1:15.8	I have long been wanting to do a show about SCA, with its roots in Jamaica, what they call
1:21.9	the first wave, an incredible joyous but also political
1:26.0	music.
1:27.0	Second wave ska coming up in the punk years, third wave ska, sort of revival and explosion of popularity in the 90s.
1:34.0	Three different stories really but one classic beat.
1:38.0	We've got just the people here to help us explain it, Jim.
1:41.0	Two experts in Scott Chuck Wren a longtime Scott
1:44.4	DJ and scholar and the founder of jump-up records and Charlie Organier
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