The likes of Duke Reid and Sir Coxsone was not yet on the discotheque music scene until middle of the 1950s. In 1958, saw the first of the local R&B bands being formed by Joe Higgs and Roy Wilson that later became known as Higgs & Wilson who began recording for the conjugal audiences of Jamaica. By the early 1960s, an idiosyncratic music sound had sprung up based around the mento and Rhythm and Blues with a slice of Jazz thrown in. This mix and blend became known as the ska. The best-known of the original ska bands were the Skatalites band, whose career spanned over decades into numerous styles of popular Jamaican music. Primarily instrumental music of Ska rhythms generally didn't lend too well to vocal styling lyrics, though it did not affect popular artists such as The Maytals and The Wailers! | Ska Developed Into Rock SteadyRude boys were anything from fashionable poseurs to hard-edged, violent and misogynist thugs with nothing to lose in Jamaica's post independence depressed economy. Rude boys brought desolation to the ska scene and scorn from the island's almost entirely white middle and upper class. The rude boys also garnered attention from politicians, who promised protection, gifts of weapons or other incentives to harness their political support. From then on the Ska developed into Rock Steady a soulful type of music with heavy guitar bass line. The rocky steady though Jamaica's best music; the reggae, dancehall music and dub took over and create a rage in dancehall as it became a favourite with ravers and the sound djs! |
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