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Skanking: from ska to modern Dancehall
Skank names a guitar chop and a dance. Follow that word from 1962 to today's riddims, and your steps stop landing on the beat.
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Notes from the yard
Where the steps come from, who made them and what they answered to. Long reads, sources named, no shortcuts.
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Skank names a guitar chop and a dance. Follow that word from 1962 to today's riddims, and your steps stop landing on the beat.
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Two geographies, two lineages, two ways of filling a bar. What really separates Dancehall from Afrobeats — and what has always linked them.
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Five foundational Dancehall steps, in the order to work them — and the bounce you must own before any of them will read as Dancehall.