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2 tone

British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s
Intangible music_genre Q209498
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2 tone

Summary

2 tone is a music genre[1]. It draws 377 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #233 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • 2 tone's image is recorded as The Specials crop.jpg[3].
  • 2 tone's instance of is recorded as music genre[4].
  • 2 tone's subclass of is recorded as ska[5].
  • 2 tone's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • +1979-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of 2 tone[7].
  • 2 tone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01dqp9[8].
  • 2 tone's topic's main category is recorded as Category:2 tone[9].
  • 2 tone's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/2-tone-music[10].
  • 2 tone's BBC Things ID is recorded as 30744b79-79e7-4427-8cd0-e9e9db143e9d[11].
  • 2 tone's MusicBrainz genre ID is recorded as 18797864-41b0-4602-8241-adbee761774c[12].
  • 2 tone's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-292812[13].
  • 2 tone's Rate Your Music genre ID is recorded as 2-tone[14].
  • 2 tone's AllMusic genre/style ID is recorded as ma0000002403[15].
  • 2 tone's Every Noise at Once ID is recorded as skarevival[16].

Why It Matters

2 tone draws 377 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #233 of 1,946).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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