the.com/ska punk

means A hybrid genre that bolts punk's speed and snarl onto ska's offbeat guitar skank and horn riffs, built for a room full of people doing the same goofy skank-dance.

from Ska itself emerged in Jamaica in the late 1950s, its name possibly echoing the scratchy 'skat-skat-skat' guitar upstroke or a term musicians used loosely for the sound; it later crossed to Britain via Two Tone acts who fused it with punk's attitude in the late 1970s and early '80s, and that punk-ska splice crossed the Atlantic again in the '80s and '90s, where American bands cranked the tempo, added horns, and gave it the name ska punk.