In the late fifties, a new style of jazz called Ska that was a merge of Carribean and Jamaican tones as well as latin American styles gains massive popularity, with it's iconic walking bass lines.
During the 60s, many forms and genres emerge from jazz, the behemoth loses it's once massive foothold, however instead of dying out, jazz lives on by evolving into it's child genres.
Ska's close cousin, punk, also finds it's ancestrey in Jazz, both born strong in the 60s, punk speeds into mainstream unlike Ska, with he rise of the infamous New York band, "The Ramones".
Ska on the other hand is barely kept alive in the underground by many "for fun" small bands.
| Genre | Time of Influence | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| Punk | 1960-present | Very Popular, relevant |
| Ska | 1950-2000 | Barely on mainstream media |