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CARIBBEAN CULTURE |
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CALYPSO Calypso
is a form of syncopated
Afro-Caribbean music or song popular in Caribbean countries and wherever
people from the Caribbean live. It developed during colonial times,
largely as a means of communication among African slaves in the French and
British islands of the Caribbean. Much of its development took place in
Trinidad, where it became the music of Carnival. SHANTO Shanto is a special musical folk idiom that shares
features with the calypso. Bill Rogers, a Guyanese, was its greatest
exponent and "B.G. Bhagee" was the most well-known shanto. CARIFESTA, the Caribbean Festival of Arts was conceived as a regional festival encompassing all the creative and artistic skills and energies of the member countries of CARICOM, the wider Caribbean, and people of the Caribbean abroad, wherever in the world they now live. The first Carifesta, called Carifesta ’72, was held in Georgetown, Guyana in 1972. It brought together writers, artists, musicians and other creative people in a variety of performances concentrated during the period Carifesta lasted. The audiences were not only the local people but visitors from other Caribbean countries, from the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. This has been the pattern for succeeding Carifestas. The following table shows a complete listing
of Carifesta dates and
locations.
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