Although strongly influenced by traditional African, American jazz and old-time rhythm and blues, reggae owes its direct origins to the progressive development of ska and rocksteady in 1960s Jamaica. One of the main individuals who progressed this genre was Count Ossie.[7][8]
Ska arose in the studios of Jamaica around 1959; it developed from the earlier mento genre.[4] Ska is characterized by a walking bass line, accentuated guitar or piano rhythms on the offbeat, and sometimes jazz-like horn riffs. In addition to being massively popular with the Jamaican rude boy subculture, it had gained a large following among Mods in Britain by 1964.
Rude boys began deliberately playing their ska records at half speed, preferring to dance slower as part of their tough image.[4] By the mid-1960s, many musicians had begun playing the tempo of ska slower, while emphasizing the walking bass and offbeats. The slower sound was named rocksteady, after a single by Alton Ellis. This phase of Jamaican music lasted only until 1968, when musicians began to speed up the tempo of the music again, and added yet more effects.[9] This led to the creation of reggae.
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