The Barbadian Cultural Renaissance

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539985709
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis The Barbadian Cultural Renaissance by : Ralph A. Jemmott

Download or read book The Barbadian Cultural Renaissance written by Ralph A. Jemmott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of Barbadian Culture through the Arts during the period after Independence leading up to the year 2016, and is written and offered in recognition and celebration of Barbados' 50th anniversary of Independence. It is a retrospective on the state of cultural awareness over the past 50 years. It is divided into three parts, the first of which examines an earlier belief in a 'non-existent Barbadian culture', and discusses the legitimacy of a Barbadian Cultural Renaissance and a 'gradual awakening after the year 1966. Part Two examines the 'iconographic reconstruction' of Barbadian culture, where the previously dominant Eurocentric values are partially replaced by an awareness of the cultural significance of the Black populace, and highlights the more significant contributions of certain 'cultural icons' over a period of 50 years. Part Three challenges the direction in which some aspects of Barbadian culture are heading. "To some degree it may reflect the writer's own cultural ambivalence between the more liberal ingredients... and the older more conservative aspects... What matters ultimately is that 'the culture' in the full sense speaks to those things that advance a genuinely humane enterprise and an enlightened progressivism consonant with human dignity." "All is not lost; the author's conclusion inspires some sense of achievement and hope." - Dr. Viola Davis -

Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351877348
Total Pages : 162 pages
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Book Synopsis Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados by : Sharon Meredith

Download or read book Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados written by Sharon Meredith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life, although most of the population are descended from enslaved Africans taken to Barbados to work on the sugar plantations. After independence, an official desire to promulgate the country’s African heritage led to the revival and recontextualisation of cultural traditions. Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.

Roots to Popular Culture

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Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Roots to Popular Culture by : Curwen Best

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The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087749X
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Book Synopsis The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados by : Curwen Best

Download or read book The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados written by Curwen Best and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island's music culture. Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. Readers will find especially compelling Best's analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil' Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression. This book will be of significant interest to scholars, students and all those curious about Caribbean popular culture, the popular music of Barbados, and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural development in a small island state.

The Question of Barbadian Culture

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Total Pages : 30 pages
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Book Synopsis The Question of Barbadian Culture by : Richard Allsopp

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Chattel House Blues

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Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766370869
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)

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Book Synopsis Chattel House Blues by : Hilary Beckles

Download or read book Chattel House Blues written by Hilary Beckles and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remaking of colonial Barbados as a postmodern nation state has its political roots buried deep within the past. In Chattel House Blues, Hilary Beckles sets out to rewrite modern Barbadian history by centring the evolution of the nation in centuries of grassroots struggle. Democracy in Barbados, he argues, as a social, political and cultural reality, has its origins principally within working class demands for freedom, justice and equality and not as a bestowal upon the masses by elites at moments of imperial and colonial enlightenment. In the second volume of his trilogy, Great House Rules: Landless Emancipation and Workers' Protest in Barbados 1838-1938, Prof. Beckles convincingly shows that for the first one hundred years after emancipation, an unbroken chain of resistance, protest and agitation for democratic governance, resulted in a decisive breach in the walls of the structures of white supremacy culminating in the Clement Payne Movement and the Riots of 1937. Black workers and their middle class allies secured Universal Adult Suffrage in 1950 and finally politically independence in 1966, ending the 'Great House Rule' that had begun three hundred years earlier. This process he further argues, reached maturity in 1994 when Owen Arthur, a young man from the chattel house in the plantation tenantry became prime minister. Independence and nationhood, though critical markers in the journey towards social justice and equity d not mean an end to the struggle. The politically enfranchised workers have since risen to an appreciation of their economic rights and the issue of popular economic democracy is now seen as the next step I civil rights development that Barbadians must confront. Chattel House Blues connects current political thinking with the historical process. In producing this work of historical literature that emphasises a people-centred culture of change and transformation, Prof. Beckles' thesis is challenging if not controversial and is bound to result in widespread debate among Barbadians at home and in the diaspora.

Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351795716
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Book Synopsis Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks by : Ezra Griffith

Download or read book Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks written by Ezra Griffith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are certain places perceived to be therapeutic, to make people feel better about life, about themselves, and about their bodies? Could there be environmental, individual, societal, and attachment factors that come together in the healing process in both traditional and non-traditional landscapes? This observation is particularly important and has implications for the understanding of both healing and disruption in the lives of individuals. In Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks, Dr. Griffith examines factors that influence the intersection of health and place, one’s sense of belonging, and the constructing of therapeutic spaces that minimize psychosocial disruption in our daily lives.

English Rustics in Black Skin

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Publisher : New College & University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780808401223
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis English Rustics in Black Skin by : Sidney M. Greenfield

Download or read book English Rustics in Black Skin written by Sidney M. Greenfield and published by New College & University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The overwhelming majority of Barbados' swarming multitudes are descendants of slaves who came from Africa, but the sources of their institutions are to be found elsewhere. The stream of culture-history in which they live came from England. Inhabited by the descendants of Africa, then, Barbados is truly "Little England" in its cultural tradition. As a philologist observed at the beginning of the present century, "the Barbados Negro is an English rustic in a black skin." The family system of these "Black Englishmen" is rooted in the cultural tradition of England and therefore its similarity in form and structural integration to the family system found in other English areas is to be expected. Since the vast majority of its inhabitants are lower class and live close to a subsistence level, the statistical predominance of matrifocal families is understandable. The occurrence of subnuclear families based on the mother-child bond can be correlated with the occupational frustration of adult males. This book is a methodological attempt to integrate structural-functional and cultural-historical analysis in the study of the family, a specific social institution which has been the subject of considerable controversy and conflicting opinion in the literature on the area. Attention is given to the historical factors which contributed to making Barbadian culture what it is, and an analysis is made of the relationship between household, the family, and the total society. It is learned that the family, as a social system, is the problem, rather than matrifocality, which is only one form of the family. Furthermore, this book predicts that a possible future rise in the standard of living, resulting from an expansion of the economy, would bring with it an increase in the percentage of stable nuclear families based on marriage, similar to that found in other Anglo-Saxon nations."--Page 4 of cover.

A-Z of Barbados Heritage

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Publisher : MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis A-Z of Barbados Heritage by : Sean Carrington

Download or read book A-Z of Barbados Heritage written by Sean Carrington and published by MacMillan Caribbean. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every aspect of Barbadian history, geography, natural history, culture and society is covered.

Reasonings with the Youth

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Publisher : Caribbean Chapters Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789769552289
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Reasonings with the Youth by : David Comissiong

Download or read book Reasonings with the Youth written by David Comissiong and published by Caribbean Chapters Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youth are the window through which the future enters the world, and it is important to nurture their minds and encourage progressive thinking and attitudes towards securing a brighter future. In this publication David Comissiong speaks to Barbadian and Caribbean youth through his provocative and challenging narrative which focuses on History, Pan-Africanism, Slavery, Culture and Politics, encouraging them to face their history and themselves. "The call to wake up and do something positive with and for our society goes out to all Barbadians in general, but it is especially directed at the youth of our nation. And if the youth are to assume the onerous but critical duty of taking responsibility for the future progress of Barbados, then they will have to grapple with and transcend our extremely dysfunctional political and governance system."

The Home of Barbadian Culture & Heritage

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Total Pages : 1 pages
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Book Synopsis The Home of Barbadian Culture & Heritage by : Barbados Museum & Historical Society

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The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society written by Barbados Museum and Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marching to a Different Drummer

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ISBN 13 : 9789768225177
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis Marching to a Different Drummer by : Antonio Rudder

Download or read book Marching to a Different Drummer written by Antonio Rudder and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The themes of culture and identity will forever bear relevance in a Caribbean context. P. Antonio 'Boo' Rudder approaches these themes from the very intimate knowledge which he has acquired from being both an artist and an administrator, a CEO and a cultural warrior; one who has worn and continues to wear several of these caps. He has taken up the challenge to address them honestly and forthrightly in the context of a Barbadian perspective.This work traces developments in the creative and artistic landscape of Barbados over the past three decades, describing policies, initiatives and personalities that have significantly impacted these developments. In doing so it exposes the milestone achievements, outstanding contributions, opportunities, benchmarks, stumbling blocks, errors, foibles, and conundrums emerging from such developments. It is a case study which can inform researchers, developers of cultural policies and programmes, and cultural practitioners across the Caribbean.After reading Marching to a Different Drummer, it will be difficult to plead innocence when questioned about the state of culture and our cultural perceptions in Barbados.

Cultural Patrimony

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Cultural Patrimony by : The Barbados Museum and Historical Society

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Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322787
Total Pages : 701 pages
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Book Synopsis Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75 by : Katherine D. McCann

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75 written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.

Imagining Caribbean womanhood

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111268
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Book Synopsis Imagining Caribbean womanhood by : Rochelle Rowe

Download or read book Imagining Caribbean womanhood written by Rochelle Rowe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that femininity was used to shape ideas about Caribbean modernity, citizenship, and political and economic freedom. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, ‘race’ and racism studies and studies of the body.

For the Geography of a Soul

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Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Book Synopsis For the Geography of a Soul by : Timothy J. Reiss

Download or read book For the Geography of a Soul written by Timothy J. Reiss and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: