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English caribbean
English Caribbean Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| SKA | Jamaican popular music that emerged in early 1960’s much influenced by American rhythm and blues. |
| Rock Steady | Jamaican popular music style that supplanted ska and was dominant around 1966-1968. |
| Riddim | Jamaican term used to refer to underlying recorded rhythm tracks often recycled to create new songs or to back deejay lyrics - a bass melody and the basic accompanying drum pattern. |
| Rhumba Box | Jamaican bass instrument that is very much like the Cuban marimbula |
| Repeater | The highest pitched of the Rastafarian drums used in traditional nyabinghi music, which plays the more complex rhythm patterns. |
| Reggae | Jamaican popular music that developed around 1968 and remained the dominant form until the 1980’s; nowadays, the term is used to refer to all styles of Jamaican popular music since the 1960’s |
| Rastafarianism | A politico-religious movement that developed in Jamaica in the 1930’s and has since grown to become a world religion; the divinity of Haile Selassie of Ethopia and repatriation of the faithful to Africa are proclaimed. |
| Pokomania | A blanket term for the Afro-Protest and religions that developed in Jamaica during the nineteenth century, as well as the music associated with them - sometimes used to refer to revival |
| Parang | A Trinidadian Christmas-season song and dance genre, of Venezuelan derivation. |
| Nyabinghi | A traditional, drum-based Rastafarian musical style. The term is also used for formal Rastafarian gatherings and ceremonies. |
| Moko Jumbie | A stilted, costumed, stock character in trinidad carnival. |
| Mento | Jamaican creole folk-song genre played on a variety of instruments, most typically featuring guitar and or banjo, fife or fiddle, and rhumba box. |
| Kumina | An African-derived religion in eastern Jamaica and also the name of a new, secular, urban style of drumming that developed in Kingston and contributed to the development of nyabinghi drumming. |
| Kromanti Play | Traditional religion of the Maroons living in the Blue Mountains of eastern Jamaica. |
| Jab-Jab | A ghoulishly costumed stock character in Trinidad Carnival |
| Dub Poetry | A Jamaican genre that arose during the 1970’s performed with styles of Jamaican music using Jamaican creole language and uncompromising political lyrics. |
| Dub | A substyle of reggae that arose during the 1970’s, characterized by special studio effects such as fades, echo, reverb, and shifting of recorded tracks. |
| Deejay Music | music whose lyrics foreground the nitty-gritty perversities of street level rality: violence, struggles for survival, joys of dancing and sex |
| Dancehall | A style of Jamaican popular music that arose out of reggae in the 1980’s and currently remains the dominant popular style. Characterized by less-complex rhythms and scaled down instrumentation taking a back seat to sometimes DJ like vocals. |
| Chutney | A light, fast Indo-Caribbean song and dance in modernized Indian folk style that holds much in common with Soca. |
| Camboulay | A nineteenth-century Afro-Trinidadian festival with drumming and dancing. |
| Crop Over | Carnivbal in Barbados |
| Soca | Modern Calypso dance Music |
| Calypso | Music where lyrics are most important and include ‘double entendre' |
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