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When Aaron Carnes began research for his book nearly a decade ago, he didn't intend to write from a defensive stance. A former ska drummer turned music journalist, he set out to write a definitive book about the history of the genre when he discovered there were shockingly few books on its history. Back in 2013, “I was really noticing how much music journalism had no interest in ska whatsoever,” he said by phone recently. It wasn’t until he began compiling the hundreds of hours of intervie...