斯卡曲风（Ska）发源自牙买加 ，本是该地的传统乐风。经过输入及改进后，于1960年代早期，成为美国流行音乐乐坛的一环，也为美国当地拉丁美洲流行音乐的重要一部份。

经过改良后，该曲风采用的跳跃式吉他弹法和时而间歇的节奏诠释布鲁斯乐曲，之后在融入灵魂歌曲后，更成为美国主流音乐乐风。较知名斯卡曲风代表作《My Boy Lollipop》问世后，该曲风更于国际乐坛接受。这是一种具有欢愉节奏、大量铜管乐声、爵士即兴演奏并搭配强烈鼓声的曲风。

另外，斯卡曲风放慢鼓点后的缓慢曲风，即为之后红遍欧美的雷鬼。

Ska (/ˈskɑː/, Jamaican [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the upbeat. Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm & blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.