ska

I missed punk because I was too young, but two-tone ska, I got into that big time.

She hopes these genres can take off in the U.K., as did Afrobeats, ska, bhangra and other musical styles that immigrant communities helped integrate into British popular music.

The team was able to pinpoint the location of the radio waves to one specific star using another SKA precursor, the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa.

When Vampire Weekend started out, one aspect of the band’s project was recontextualizing certain styles that perhaps had fallen out of vogue — the ska elements, for instance, that feature prominently on the group’s self-titled 2008 debut, which came out in the wake of the New York garage-rock revival.

“It’s something about that ska beat and the drums coming in and that’s the song that the fans associate with the game,” Hawk said.