Ska Instruments
This set of instruments often includes the snare, the toms, and the cymbals.
What are drums?
This ska revival band was based out of Coventry, England.
Who were The Specials?
The Caribbean Sea is located in this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This decade saw the creation of ska.
What are the '50s?
This city is famously home to the Catacombs of Paris.
What is Paris, France?
This rather large instrument has 36 black keys and 52 white keys.
What is the piano?
This band released 007 (Shanty Town) in 1967.
Who are Desmond Dekker and The Aces?
This country is where ska originated.
What is Jamaica?
Ska fused with this other music genre during the 2 tone movement.
What is punk rock?
This river, upon which lies the city of Ottawa, is used for part of the border between Quebec and Ontario.
What is the Ottawa River?
This string instrument helps to lay the foundation and groove of the song.
What is the bass guitar?
This punk rock band was the first to mix punk and ska, inventing the 2 tone sub genre.
Who is Madness?
Ska also became popular in this island nation outside of the Caribbean.
What is the United Kingdom?
Name this other Jamaican music genre which is derived from ska.
What is Reggae?
Mexico City is a major city in this country.
What is Mexico?
This brass instrument is held in front of the player with a large bell and 7 different slide positions.
What is a trombone?
This ska band is most known for its recording Guns of Navarone, released in 1965.
Who are the Skatalites?
This Cuban genre also helped influence ska.
What is mambo?
This New Orleans-based pianist helped inspire ska.
Who is Rosco Gordon?
This war followed the First Punic War.
What is the Second Punic War?
This instrument has more than 20 keys and uses a reed to make sound.
What is a saxophone?
Three artists helped popularize ska during the '60s. Name two of them.
Who are Stranger Cole, The Skatalites, and Prince Buster?
This city, from which the Reel Big Fish are from, is located in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
What is Huntington Beach?
During the '80s and '90s, ska saw this new influence that would change the genre forever.
What is third wave/third wave ska?
This US State is home to Kansas City.
What is Missouri?