Definition of "bluebeat"

Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.

1971 November 13, Billboard, volume 83, number 46, page 34

Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days. On his next trip he decided to learn more about the Jamaican music business.

2010, Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, page 180

There we could all dance, or in my case tap my feet the night away to OUR music: ska, bluebeat and motown.

2011, Ted Curtis, Robert Dellar, Leslie Esther, Mad Pride, page 38

Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.

2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271