Third Wave Ska

Third wave ska is the revival of Jamaican ska that began in the late 1980s and reached its commercial peak in the mid-1990s, centred in the United States. It fuses the offbeat guitar and piano accents, walking basslines and horn sections of 1960s ska and British 2 Tone with the speed, distorted guitars and song structures of punk and hardcore. Bands such as *Sublime*, *No Doubt* and *The Mighty Mighty Bosstones* brought the style to mainstream radio, while Latin American groups including *Los Fabulosos Cadillacs* developed parallel scenes, making the third wave the most geographically dispersed phase of ska's history.