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String bands Across the 19th century, string bands started to appear in the Caribbean, with regional variations. The groups who played European dance music at upper-class house parties and balls gave rise to string bands. The early years frequently featured the participation of enslaved domestic workers, whose participation helped blend Caribbean rhythms and playing techniques with European songs and instruments. The mixture of instruments and repertoire of a string band is adapted to the one-of-a-kind issue on its native island. For instance, the quelbe of the United States Virgin Islands called “fungi” on the British Virgin Islands is the local incarnation of a string band on those islands  (Gangelhoff, 2019, pg. 182) . String bands play musical support to a range of social and festive occasions on several islands. For the Christmas season, string bands appear on some. A violin, guitar, banjo, or some mixture of those appliances, along with a number of percussion instruments, are fre

Creolization in French Speaking  In the French Caribbean, enslaved blacks adopted the musical and dance practices imported by slaveholders and landowners from Europe, which was then adapted to creolized music and dance.                                                                                      Vodou           Vodou is a syncretic religion, a creole blend of the African spiritual traditions brought to the island by the enslaved and the Christian beliefs enforced by Catholic missionaries  (Gangelhoff, 2019, pg. 148) . In the 16th to 19th centuries, the Atlantic slave trade led to the development of vodou among Afro-Haitian populations. Its structure resulted from the mixing of the indigenous faiths of the West and Central Africans who had been brought to the island of Hispaniola as slaves, notably the Yoruba, Fon, and Kongo. Although they pray various Loa and have distinct divisions, Dominicans do it the same way overall. People could think that practitioners are uninformed. Wh

  C reolization in Caribbean Music - English   There were various examples of creolization in chapter 1 of  Tour de Force. The three examples that I will speak on are, Jamaica (reggae) music, food from Jamaica (jerk chicken), and Jamaica (dancehall) music. Overview of Jamaica - On August 6, 1962, Jamaica established a national flag in anticipation of its independence day.                  The Story of the Jamaican National Flag | The National Library of Jamaica (nlj.gov.jm) 1. Jamaica (reggae) music - The authors of Tour de Force describe this genre as Reggae, linked to Rastafarian (Gangelhoff, 2019). Rastafarianism is closely tied to movements of black pride and black nationalism  (Gangelhoff, 2019) . Reggae music was developed in the 1960s in Kingston. Rastafari were the persons who formed reggae music and the lyrics of most reggae songs utilized words from the Rastafari dialect such as, "Jah," "Zion," and "Babylon." Those dialects were crucial for Rasta

C reolization in Caribbean Music - English   There were various examples of creolization in chapter 1 of  Tour de Force. The three examples that I will speak on are, Jamaica (reggae) music, food from Jamaica (jerk chicken), and Jamaica (dancehall) music. Overview of Jamaica - On August 6, 1962, Jamaica established a national flag in anticipation of its independence day.                  The Story of the Jamaican National Flag | The National Library of Jamaica (nlj.gov.jm) 1. Jamaica (reggae) music - The authors of Tour de Force describe this genre as "Reggae, linked to Rastafarian," which the book states on page 48. The book also states that "Rastafarian is closely tied to movements of black pride and black nationalism," as seen on page 48. Reggae music was developed in the 1960s in Kingston. Rastafari were the persons who formed reggae music and the lyrics of most reggae songs utilized words from the Rastafari dialect such as, "Jah," "Zion," and