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Certain types of music have been around, you know, forever.

Jazz, for example, has been with us for over a hundred years.

Classical music goes back at least 600 years. And then there's religious music, which dates

back thousands of years. If you study this sort of thing, it's a form of ethnomusicology,

you'll see that revivals happen all the time, all over the world, and with all kinds of different

music. You see, if a type of music

lasts as long as some of what we just talked about, it's always got to be there in the background.

It can't ever have actually died off. And it really helps if these old sounds experience periodic

comebacks, you know, just to give things a boost from time to time. Music revivals can be defined as social movements, where a segment of the population decides

that a specific era or musical system needs to be restored for whatever reason.

Maybe they're just tired of what's happening in the mainstream, and these people start to look for something from the good old days to soothe their souls.

And revivals have an interesting side effect.

When a form of music comes to the fore again, it has a chance to renew, to regenerate, to evolve.

And this is where we encounter one of the most durable and regenerative forms of music of the last

hundred years.

This is chapter two of alt-rock revivals, and this time we're going to talk about ska.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross. That's when things got out of control. She didn't want to. He had his face. She said, let's go. He said, no way. Come on, babe. It's your lucky day. Shut your mouth. We're going to do it. Reaching back to the Scott revival of the 1990s, that's Sublime with Date Rape.

Hello again, I'm Alan Cross, and this is the second episode looking at the various Alt Rock revivals that we've seen over the decades.

Like I said on Chapter 1, Alt Rock has been around long enough for us to be able to identify certain cycles.

And this time, we're going to look at how SCA keeps coming back again and

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