#anyway ive been studying the history of ska in my freetime | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

real-artemis · 1 year

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the annoying thing about ska fans is that they're so optimistic that they'll completely forget about everything that happened in the ska scene before they were alive. its getting better with the 4th wave nowadays but damn...the 90s kids ONLY remember the 90s...

#i literally have to look so hard for history about this genre #why is it so hard it literally involves en mass cultural diffusion from reasons that -- once i found out --#ARE VERY EASY TO TRACE BACK TO SHIT THAT MAKES SENSE #why is ska happy? its music of celebration #what is it celebrating? jamaican freedom from the british #why did jamaican people immigrate to britain? because britain had an extreme loss of employed people #why did they have an extreme loss of employed people? ww2 #why are all the ska bands singing about not having a job then? job market decreased #why did the job market decrease? bloody thatcher #and then the rudeboys had a reason for their genre to be punk-infused #because they were angry about the political atmosphere of the time #plus the only pay they could get was from fighting skinheads #which is ANOTHER thing modern-day moonstompers COMPLETELY dismiss dont even get me started #worst part is its extreeemely in character for ska fans #lmao #anyway ive been studying the history of ska in my freetime #can you tell #ska #2nd wave ska #rambling in the tags #music history #history

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