Marc Wasserman

BV Presents: 'Ska Lives!' - a virtual panel with 3 ska authors on the genre's continued legacy

Featuring Aaron Carnes (‘In Defense of Ska’), Marc Wasserman (‘Ska Boom’), and Kenneth Partridge (‘Hell of a Hat’), and moderated by BV editor Andrew Sacher, this livestream panel explores the rich, diverse history and future of ska.

'Ska Boom!' book highlights U.S. ska in between 2 Tone & 3rd wave - Q&A w/ author Marc Wasserman

The narrative that ska comes and goes in ways in damaging to the genre, and not even all that accurate. Marc Wasserman’s new oral history ‘Ska Boom!’ looks at the American ska scene of the 1980s, and the bands that bridged the gap between 2 Tone and the third wave…