Musical Hairsplitting: The act of classifying music and musicians into pathologically picayune categories: “The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.”
Source: wiktionary
Ska
//skɑː//
Synonyms for "ska"
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Translations
14 translations across 14 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Esperanto
1 entries- skao noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Finnish
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
French
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
German
1 entries- Ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Italian
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- skia noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Japanese
1 entries- スカ noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Korean
1 entries- 스카 noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Polish
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Portuguese
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Russian
1 entries- ска noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Spanish
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Swedish
1 entries- ska noun (style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Everyone who loves ska has their own story to tell—the first time they heard the Specials back in the '70s, the first time they danced onstage at a Toasters show in the '80s, the first time they saw the Skatalites perform in the '90s.
Source: wiktionary
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