The story
From blue + beat, named after Blue Beat Records, a London record label that released Jamaican R&B and ska in the 1960s. The label was named after the blues genre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bluebeat
Today it means: Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, precursor of reggae. Full definition →